Akira

[Neon Ignition]

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/38884/warners-now-planning-an-akira-trilogy

Warner Bros won't let this die it seems and has now tasked the current showrunner of Daredevil to write a script for the adaptation... only this time as the first in a trilogy. Also, apparently Christopher Nolan is somehow connected to the adaptation.

[Dogg Thang]

I don't need this at all but we might get some pretty visuals from it.

[Asura]

I would love someone to do an animation of the original, in its entirety, in the original style (or perhaps in the style of FREEDOM, as that was similar & modern).

I bet if a major studio committed to a trilogy they could manage it.

[QualityChimp]

2019 and Neo-Tokyo is about to E.X.P.L.O.D.E.
This is the most recent bit of news I could find:

http://www.denofgeek.com/uk/movies/akira/52039/akira-remake-taika-waititi-would-cast-asian-teenagers

"On the cusp of releasing Thor: Ragnarok for Marvel, Taika Waititi was recently linked to the longstanding Akira movie. And while he's stopped far short of confirming his role in the project, he has talked a bit about what he might do with Akira if he did step into the director's role.

"I love the movie, but I would not do a remake of the movie," the filmmaker said, referring to the classic 1988 anime feature. "I would do an adaptation of the books."


In his interview with IGN, Waititi went on to explain that, rather than go for a cast of bankable Hollywood leads, he'd take the approach of hiring relative unknowns:


"Asian teenagers would be the way to do it for me," Waititi said. "I mean, sort of untound, untapped talent.""

However, here's a lovely interview with Katsuhiro Otomo:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2017/05/26/katsuhiro-otomo-on-creating-akira-and-designing-the-coolest-bike-in-all-of-manga-and-anime/#321e02cd6d25

“In terms of Kaneda's bike in Akira, the initial inspiration was the lightcycles from Tron designed by Syd Mead. However, they are wide, so I halved them and used that as an initial basis.”

[Neon Ignition]

They still shouldn't bother with this, it'd flop so hard. I'm surprised they keep pursuing projects like this despite the long broken path of failures that continues to grow.

[QualityChimp]

I mainly posted for the Otomo interview, but thought I should give an update on the movie, at least!

[Asura]

"I love the movie, but I would not do a remake of the movie," the filmmaker said, referring to the classic 1988 anime feature. "I would do an adaptation of the books."

I think this is the way to go. That being said, I always felt that the original movie was one of the best adaptations, purely in terms of visual style, that we've ever seen in the comics-to-animation medium (Persephone comes close). It just is the comic, but in colour and moving.

The issues came purely from the way they had to slice down the story in order to get it into a reasonable run-time. I think that today, with modern streaming networks and such, it'd be great to see Akira done in that style, but the entire work. The whole manga, from start to end. It doesn't have to be slavish; I mean they can rearrange some of the events for pacing if necessary and take advantage of the change in medium, but it should be as close to the source material as possible.

[teddymeow]

"Asian teenagers would be the way to do it for me," Waititi said. "I mean, sort of untound, untapped talent."

Let's hope that's never taken out of context.

[Neon Ignition]

http://www.darkhorizons.com/the-new-akira-to-shoot-in-california/

These adaptation keep stumbling at the box office but they also keep on coming. Akira now has a shooting location, California. Seem off? That's because the film is set in New Manhattan rather than Neo Tokyo

[Cassius_Smoke]

Where is that picard facepalm image when I need it...

[teddymeow]

http://www.darkhorizons.com/the-new-...in-california/

These adaptation keep stumbling at the box office but they also keep on coming. Akira now has a shooting location, California. Seem off? That's because the film is set in New Manhattan rather than Neo Tokyo

****.

[Dogg Thang]

Funny that the very first post of this thread has it in Manhattan too, back in 2011. The more things change...

[QualityChimp]

They need to hurry up because in 2019, Neo-Tokyo New Manhattan is about to E X P L O D E !

[Neon Ignition]

Taika Waititi will direct Akira

http://www.darkhorizons.com/waititis-akira-set-for-may-21st-2021/

The film has set a release date of 21 May 2021, the same day as John Wick: Chapter Four... idiots... the idiots!

[Dogg Thang]

Taika Waititi will direct Akira

Cool! This will be hilarious!