User blog comment:CorbeauKarasu/Why there will never be an FMA live action film by Russinmy/@comment-1299622-20121202072225/@comment-1618178-20121202155040

I think another movie is just as unlikely as anything else, actually. It's not in BONES's "profile" as a company to carry on making endless animes on a single story, especially when there's no original material to back it up.

Again, people usually know Arakawa very little and are only familiar to FMA and, therefore, are not aware of her costumes as a manga writter who has NEVER done a single "endless" manga. She's in for closed stories and, well, FMA is OVER. She said so herself. Neither BONES nor SquareEnix will disrespect it, both out of respect and because, well, they closed a contract with Arakawa fully aware of her 'ways' and, therefore, we can imply that "Arakawa's ways" please the companies.

And I totally agree with you in regards to the reticence with foreigners making Live Actions of these cartoons and Animes, although I think that this MIGHT change some after the Rurouni Kenshin movie, which was a compleat BLAST. But, then again, it was an entirely japanese production and, therefore, it might encourage other japanese companies to make anime Live Actions, and not hand it over to foreigners, however "well intentioned" they might appear to be.