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Akira - live action remake!

The Mexican

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Sunday, October 28, 2007

One of the greatest post-apocalyptic thrillers ever told was the animated Manga Akira, which saw an announcement wayyyy back in July of 2003 that James Robinson would pen the adaptation with director Steven Norrington. I'm sure this has long passed, but we do have something official that just leaked to us through the grapevine, something that's going to blow your socks off. We've been informed that Warner Bros. Pictures is trying to get Akira off the ground pre-strike and have attached 29-year-old Oscar nominated Irish director Ruairi Robinson! No more details have been revealed other than he directed a mind blowing short film entitled The Silent City, which can be viewed over at BDTV. Watch this spot for more news soon and cross your fingers that this sucker gets rolling ASAP.

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/10291

The Silent City - awesome short film by Ruairi Robinson
http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/silent+city/video/x17eup_the-silent-city_shortfilms

I'm so excited for this!
 
I hope they better follow the manga better than they did for the animated version. Has promise...
 
^yeah for sure. the manga is one of the best sci-fi epics i ever read.


i remember reading about this in 03.... fingers and toes crossed.
 
the manga is like four thousand pages, i doubt any adaptation will be able to follow it in the time allotted.

still, the anime was amazing and i hope this is done with the respect and care it deserves.
 
yeah but a four thousand page comic book is more feasable than a novel.

this would be ideal as a miniseries.


also, it's gotta be noted that the anime was made by the original author, katsuhiro otomo himself. have any of you read otomo's previous work: Domu- A Child's Dream? Much of what developed into Akira can be found there.
 
the latest from darkhorizons

Anime & manga classic "Akira" is finally getting the American live-action feature film treatment at Warner Bros. Pictures says the trades.

Leonardo DiCaprio and his Appian Way company will produce the new version which moves the action to "New Manhattan," a city rebuilt by Japanese money after being destroyed 31 years earlier.

"Akira" originated in 1988 as a manga and then as an acclaimed animated film. Its mature themes and cutting-edge animation paved the way for anime appreciation in Western pop culture.

The original story was set in a neon-lit futuristic post-nuclear war "New Tokyo" in 2019 where a teen biker gang member is subjected to a government experiment which unleashes his latent powers. The gang's leader must find a way to stop the ensuing swathe of destruction.

Directors Stephen Norrington and Pitof were previously attached to the film which never got off the ground in the past. Warners let the rights lapse, but picked them up again when director Ruairi Robinson ("The Silent City") approached them with the idea of doing the story as a two-part epic.

Gary Whitta is writing the new adaptations, each of which will based on three volumes of the six-volume original graphic novel. A Summer 2009 release is being targeted for the first film.
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2 films sound like a go!
 
JerryBlunted said:
the manga is like four thousand pages, i doubt any adaptation will be able to follow it in the time allotted.

still, the anime was amazing and i hope this is done with the respect and care it deserves.
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They could do it up Matrix-Trilogy style.

I'll probably see it the night it comes out, that way if it sucks I won't have time to hear first.
 
rumor has it Leo DiCaprio is playing Kaneda. anybody else heard this? I actually think he could pull the character off quite well if he dyes his hair black and puts emphasis on those beady eyes of his. a Japanese actor is playing Tetsuo.
 
There was also a rumor about a live action Evangelion that I haven't heard anything about lately.....
 
The Mexican said:
Ain’t It Cool News reports that Joseph Gordon Levitt will play Tetsuo
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I could see that

Im most eager to see how they approach Tetsuo's transformation sequence
 
i guess it's better not done than not done properly. :\


The Leonardo DiCaprio-produced live-action adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo's classic 1988 anime feature "Akira" has been ditched according to Bloody Disgusting.

The project was a two-part film that Warners and DiCaprio's Appian Way had been developing with Gary Whitta ("The Book of Eli") scripting and Ruairi Robinson directing.

Now according to BD, who first broke the news of the project 18 months ago, not only has Robinson left the project but the overall project is "dead as a doornail" according to two sources.

The original film's story was set in a neon-lit futuristic post-nuclear war "New Tokyo" in 2019 where a teen biker gang member is subjected to a government experiment which unleashes his latent powers. The gang's leader must find a way to stop the ensuing swathe of destruction

The new version shifted the action to "New Manhattan," a city rebuilt by Japanese money. At one time Joseph Gordon-Levitt was rumored to be attached to play Tetsuo.
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http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/14414/dicaprio-s-akira-remake-is-dead-
 
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