Thanks for clarifying, I think Disney and Bandai not collaborating for a Sailor Moon live action is what prevented a western live-action adaptation of SM from happening.
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Yeah, there's a reason people jokingly/mockingly say that the name "DiC" was short for "Doing it Cheap".
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I just posted this in another thread.I can see why that original presentation was initially turned down by US executives. From the footage they used of the anime and musical, it made the series look like it was primarily about dancing.
That, plus the whole notion of the girls dying in the season 1 finale. Death and murder of the hero characters weren't exactly something executives approved of for children's cartoons way back then.
Though, with the way that narrator in the presentation mispronounced "Endymion", that leads me to wonder if we got the DiC dub name of "Darien" through a game of telephone that started with this presentation mispronouncing "Endymion" as "In Damian", which might have led to someone misinterpreting as it saying his name was just "Damian", which then could have somehow gotten further corrupted into the similar-sounding name "Darian" (per the spelling in Toon Makers script), which then got finalized as "Darien" in the DiC dub.
That, plus the whole notion of the girls dying in the season 1 finale. Death and murder of the hero characters weren't exactly something executives approved of for children's cartoons way back then.
Though, with the way that narrator in the presentation mispronounced "Endymion", that leads me to wonder if we got the DiC dub name of "Darien" through a game of telephone that started with this presentation mispronouncing "Endymion" as "In Damian", which might have led to someone misinterpreting as it saying his name was just "Damian", which then could have somehow gotten further corrupted into the similar-sounding name "Darian" (per the spelling in Toon Makers script), which then got finalized as "Darien" in the DiC dub.
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A bit weird for them to provide this info in a pitch to the North American market. But they tried to hide the inners' nudity in the transformation sequences, though. 
When Toei made additional Zyuranger footage for Saban to use for Power Rangers they included stuff Saban obviously was never going to use like a Kaiju flipping the Rangers off and the Rangers being hung up on crosses
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Whedon had no idea of what SM was before having Buffy green lit into pre-production.
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And yet Buffy is the closest thing we have to a good western live action of Sailor Moon.
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From The Masked Monocle's Newgrounds page.
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Someone had asked why Victoria's skin was so tan and The Masked Monocle replied:
"So i was actually using the eyedropper tool to pull the exact colors off the cels, but they may have been scanned in kinda dark, so that's what I picked up. I'll probably go through and fix it later "
Should these posts be moved to a new thread specifically about their project?
ALSO
Someone had asked why Victoria's skin was so tan and The Masked Monocle replied:
"So i was actually using the eyedropper tool to pull the exact colors off the cels, but they may have been scanned in kinda dark, so that's what I picked up. I'll probably go through and fix it later "
Should these posts be moved to a new thread specifically about their project?