Live-Action Akira Film Is Still Getting Made

[Imp_Emissary]

where there any hopes for this movie ever since it was announced this goes for any adaptations anime or video games wise
feels this belongs

That is worse than having to see the poor girl from Akira who had her shirt ripped off and nose broken, (warning: spoiler alert) end up crushed to death at the end.

 

[nekroskoma]

i'm hoping that Collet-Serra realizes how bad an idea it is and turns it down

i think he knows Del Toro so i hope he has some sense if by association

 

[theaceplaya]

The best thing we can do about this is to not go see it and convince others to not see it and buy the original instead. We can scream about it online all we want, but studio executives only listen to our wallets.

 

[Aptspire]

from one shitty director to the next

 

[GDW]

Why do all insist that this is a remake? Can't we accept that, for the first time, someone wants to adapt the entire comic into a film (series of films, they were talking two parts or a full trilogy)? Let's face it, the first is a fantastic piece of science-fiction, but it doesn't do anywhere NEAR justice to the epic that Otomo laid before us. The only thing I'm worried about (now that I know Reeves' talentless ass is out of the picture) is that they're trying to settle on a lower budget... this may end horribly...

 

[Reed Spacer]

Hey, technically the original anime Akira sucked. Do you have the slightest idea how much of the story was either cut out or outright changed?

The movie used less than a tenth of the original manga, maybe even less.

Katsuhiro Otomo wrote and directed the film and created and wrote the comics before that. If anybody is qualified to change art to convert to another, it is the orginal artist.

Well, he should have done a better job of it. Way to piss all over your own work, Katsuhiro. Compared to the manga, it's literally offensive, his directing it or not.

 

[UberNoodle]

Hey, technically the original anime Akira sucked. Do you have the slightest idea how much of the story was either cut out or outright changed?

The movie used less than a tenth of the original manga, maybe even less.

Katsuhiro Otomo wrote and directed the film and created and wrote the comics before that. If anybody is qualified to change art to convert to another, it is the orginal artist.

Well, he should have done a better job of it. Way to piss all over your own work, Katsuhiro. Compared to the manga, it's literally offensive, his directing it or not.

Why would it be 'offensive'? The movie doesn't cancel the comics out or replace them. They both co-exist perfectly well. There's nothing 'offensive' about that.

 

[UberNoodle]

Why do all insist that this is a remake? Can't we accept that, for the first time, someone wants to adapt the entire comic into a film (series of films, they were talking two parts or a full trilogy)? Let's face it, the first is a fantastic piece of science-fiction, but it doesn't do anywhere NEAR justice to the epic that Otomo laid before us. The only thing I'm worried about (now that I know Reeves' talentless ass is out of the picture) is that they're trying to settle on a lower budget... this may end horribly...

The reason is in public record. This new movie is not a case where a director has become enamored with the idea of making a particular film and is pushing it through the business end so he can realize his or her vision.

No, this is yet another case where the business side has bought rights to a property and is shopping for talent to get it made, whichever way possible, big budget or small, big vision or small. It doesn't matter to them, and therefore the only purpose the film will exist is to ride the original film's coattails to cash.

Very little film making in Hollywood, when instigated by the business end, is done for any other reason, which is why there's so much dross produced and far fewer personal and passionate projects which if Akira was one of them, it could be amazing. Clearly, from everything we've seen, it isn't going to be.