I'm guessing it would have to be good on the level of the Blade movie franchise to make money. As an example, when ghost stories didn't sell in Japan they sent it here to the US and said do whatever you want with it but recover the production costs. I am guessing plot/character decisions are made to a price in a boardroom filled with bean counters more than anything else. That said, I am no insider, just an observer since the pencil shaded version of Astro Boy was new.
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