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The Variety entertainment trade magazine is reporting on Wednesday that Warner Bros. has green-lit the live-action film adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira manga. Production on what Variety describes as a "potential tentpole project" is set to begin in late February or early March. (A "tentpole" franchise is a property which will, in theory, support a studio financially for much of a particular movie season.)According to Variety, the film's current story goes as follows: "Set in New Manhattan, the cyberpunk sci-fi epic follows the leader of a biker gang who must save his friend, discovered with potentially destructive psychokinetic abilities, from government medical experiments."Variety had reported in July that Warner hired director Jaume Collett-Serra (Unknown, Orphan, House of Wax) to direct the film, which was "being reenvisioned as a $90 million" blockbuster project. In May, previous director Albert Hughes left the project due to "creative differences" on the film.The development team with producer Andrew Lazar (Jonah Hex, Space Cowboys, Get Smart) hired a writer named Albert Torres last year, after screenwriters Gary Whitta, Mark Fergus, and Hawk Ostby were previously attached to the project. When the project was originally announced in 2008, it was intended to be the directorial debut for Ireland's Ruairi Robinson. Actor Leonardo DiCaprio (Titanic, The Aviator) is producing through his Appian Way production company.
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This film is on a hiding to nothing - the original material is going to get absolutely slashed which will upset the fans of the original (who are likely already crying that this isn't going to be set in Neo Tokyo) so i'm not entirely sure why this is even called Akira.The story WILL change significantly, the location will change, they'll probably switch in some new characters, the kids will almost certainly be gone, the ending won't be as "bag of frogs" and it's likely to be... well... "$90m blockbuster" fluff movie.So... why not just call it "AMERICA BIKEY PUNKZ!" - it doesn't gain anything from being called Akira other than huge nerdlinger expectations and obvious backlash when it's not DESUDESUDESU enough -and- a weird "Chinese" name that Bubba and his kids ain't gonna like.I'd love to be proven wrong, but ... i won't be :/
QuoteGhost in the Shellthere was a load of 2ch excitement about the "news" that Spielberg had picked up the rights to GitS - they seem to actually want a big production value film.
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Quote from: dcharlie on October 20, 2011, 10:32:36 PMQuoteGhost in the Shellthere was a load of 2ch excitement about the "news" that Spielberg had picked up the rights to GitS - they seem to actually want a big production value film.Ghost in the Shell wouldn't be too hard to adapt, I think, and they could easily go the SAC route of political intrigue over Oshii's existential philosophizing. Doesn't necessarily mean it would be good, but I think it would have a better chance of being good [and faithful to the franchise] than flippin' Akira.
The video magus posted is better than 99% of all Anime (and Japanese video games)
blah blah I'm more machine then human because of my badass cyborg implants blah blah loss of identity in hellish future world that looks like present Japan blah blah basset hound.
I like the first ghost in a shell film the best. The series is alright too I guess, but if I was supreme CEO of the gits committee I'd prefer more of that 1995 flavor.
if the Japanese keep trying and failing at live action manga/anime adaptations, I really don't think Warner Bros. has much of a shot.seriously, name one that isn't pants, and failing that, name two.
Quote from: HyperZoneWasAwesome on October 21, 2011, 12:28:40 PMif the Japanese keep trying and failing at live action manga/anime adaptations, I really don't think Warner Bros. has much of a shot.seriously, name one that isn't pants, and failing that, name two.Japanese blockbusters are all terrible to begin with, they make Transformers look like 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Quote from: Great Rumbler on October 21, 2011, 09:07:12 PMQuote from: HyperZoneWasAwesome on October 21, 2011, 12:28:40 PMif the Japanese keep trying and failing at live action manga/anime adaptations, I really don't think Warner Bros. has much of a shot.seriously, name one that isn't pants, and failing that, name two.Japanese blockbusters are all terrible to begin with, they make Transformers look like 2001: A Space Odyssey. I watched the live-action Yamato film on the flight back from Amsterdam in April....Yeah.
If japan could just figure out what post-production is they might make some good ones.
