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lydamorehouse

OMG! Lupin! I loved this anime (and manga), I will love this movie!

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rwpikul

Forget Monkey Punch's take on things, this looks to be taking a different inspiration from the original French novels.

From the trailer it looks like it's about someone who read the stories by Leblanc and took them as inspiration for his own heists, the anime/manga is set in the world of those books and are about the grandson¹.

1: With a similar crossover to a series of Japanese detective stories in that Inspector Zenigata is the descendant of the protagonist.

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dewline

This looks like it could be fun. If I ever see it.

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thewayne

That looks like fun!

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catsidhe

Have there been other updatings of Arsène Lupin, gentleman cambrioleur to the current day, à la Sherlock? I like the idea of applying the Now You See Me aesthetic to it.

I suspect I would enjoy better l'original français. The dubbing seems more irritating than usual. Maybe that's just me.

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keith_morrison

Most of the Lupin stories I'm aware of are period pieces. I don't think I've heard of any modern versions. Well, there have been characters inspired by Lupin, but none of the man himself.

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catsidhe

From what I've seen of this production, it's about a book passing on the legacy of Lupin, so it's possibly still not the man himself in modern times.

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melita66

I do love twisty-turny plots like this.

I know nothing about the original Arsene Lupin or his motivations.

Did I understand correctly from the trailer that the main character is playing a long game against someone who framed his father? It strongly reminded me of Wells's Nicholas Valiarde.

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connactic

It looked that way. Unfortunately, that was also a plot point in "Now You See Me". I say "unfortunate" because those movies also had a lot of moments that were cool when you first saw them but ended up not making any sense later.