Blade Director to Adapt 'Akira' For Western Audiences

dswensen writes: "According to the Sci-Fi Channel web site, Steven Norrington (director of Blade) is going to write and direct an adaptation of the classic anime Akira. Norrington says his story 'preserves the tone, the visual and the epic scope of the original, whilst telling a somewhat more accessible story [to Western audiences]." The article doesn't mention whether the adaptation will be animated or live-action. Given Norrington's track record and the butchery that usually takes place under the guise of making something 'accessible,' it's hard to take this as extraordinarily good news."

Comments

just keep the original

[56ker]

and put English subtitles - dubbing always spoils things & why bother making something worse?

What the fuck's supposed to be wrong with us?

[crovira]

What? We've been pithed or sumt'n?

We can't see a Japanese Anime and appreciate it for what it is?

What pisses me off is the assumption that people are morons and need to be spoonfed everything.

That's what keeps us watching crap that our culture has to adapt from somewhere else because we don't reward native original thought.

And you know the financial rewards will all go to the studio and the original artist and creator of Akira won't even get a ticket to the premiere.

FUCK THE MPAA!!!!!

FUCK THIS SPOONFEEDING THE US AUDIENCE PAP AND PABULUM.

I SAW IT IN THE ORIGINAL AND I WILL BOYCOTT THIS FARCE.