AKIRA live action adaptation not dead....

[Cap'n Cook]

..but oh how I wish it was.

https://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=25763

Add it to the list of films I never want to see ever.

 

[Reinhardt]

I thoroughly enjoyed Children of Men, so there is hope... very little hope, but still hope nevertheless.

 

[Darklord Dave]

Great writers - it could be interesting.

 

[Darth Waller]

Now involving the Hughes Brothers.

From Comic Book Resources:
https://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=24803

Warner Brothers Pictures is betting on the directing team that have made "The Book of Eli" a slow-stalking box office hit to bring one of the biggest manga and anime phenomenons of the past 30 years to live action: Katsuhiro Otomo's "Akira." The news comes via a report on regular nerd movie-scooping Deadline Hollywood which holds that the studio has tapped Allen and Albert Hughes – commonly called The Hughes Bros – to take up the reigns on a two-movie adaptation of the iconic Japanese cyberpunk tale after "Eli" brought in over $80 million since opening last month.

Originally serialized in manga form from 1982 to 1990, "Akira" proved not only to be one of the most successful franchises in its home country along with its blockbuster 1988 anime adaptation, the franchise was also one of the earliest and most popular examples of a manga/anime property becoming a hit with American audiences. The "Akira" manga has been published in standard Western comic book format by both Marvel (via their Epic imprint) and Dark Horse, and this month it soon return to comic shops and bookstores in the popular tankobon format now that rights holder Kodansha has opened up its own American publishing division.

Joining the Hughes Bros on "Akira" as he did with "Book of Eli" is screenwriter Gary Whitta, who's also currently prepping a comic book called "Daybreak" for Jeff Katz's American Original imprint to be published by Top Cow in 2010. And of course, the directing brothers last moved into the comics space with "From Hell" – their 2001 adaptation of Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's Jack The Ripper graphic novel.

 

[The Mike]

Been awhile since there was movement on this front:

As if my confidence that Hollywood could pull of a live action version of Akira already wasn’t low enough, now the rumor is that Zac Efron might be playing Kaneda has sunk that confidence well into the negatives. That and the news that the R-rated script from years ago is being reworked into a more family-friendly and fast food cross-promotional PG-13.

via https://www.slashfilm.com/2010/11/05/rumor-zac-efron-albert-hughes-akira/

 

[karamazov80]

Sweet lord, let it die

 

[Cap'n Cook]

I feel physically sick.

 

[Jedah Kalm]

^^

Concur, please somebody shoot me in the face.

 

[TheObsoleteMan]

Family friendly Akira?!

 

[plasmid303]

Way to antagonize the core audience.

 

[lerath666]

................................

 

[plasmid303]

Morgan Freeman in the running for the role of Colonel Shikishima?

https://io9.com/5683707/will-morgan-freeman-play-the-colonel-in-akira

 

[King Darkness]

A bubbling sea of sucktitude this shall be

 

[Darth Waller]

Been awhile since there was movement on this front:



via https://www.slashfilm.com/2010/11/05/rumor-zac-efron-albert-hughes-akira/

Wow. This has FAIL written all over it.

 

[creature4000]

This movie will be terrible!

 

[daikkenaurora]

Sad. More live action anime, more crap. Why must they piss on my childhood.

 

[Biojex]

A bubbling sea of sucktitude this shall be

El Oh El

 

[ironwez20]

Man anime is so good and they crapped all over the last airbender and dbz which could have been big blockbuster if not done selfishly. I believe naruto or bleach wont be safe from hollywood for long.

 

[Ra88]

Man anime is so good and they crapped all over the last airbender and dbz which could have been big blockbuster if not done selfishly. I believe naruto or bleach wont be safe from hollywood for long.

The Last Airbender isn't an anime.

 

[fosing]

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FU hollywood.