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Live-Action Remake of Akira

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the casting-tetsuo-the-biggest-challenge dept.

GusherJizmac writes "Looks like Warner Bros. is looking to remake classic anime, Akira, as a live action feature-length film. Will current computer generated special effects be enough to bring this masterpiece to life?" We touched on this earlier, but now it looks closer to production, since Norrington has finished shooting for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

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  1. Re:no way. by PhxBlue · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    Crushing people into blood-balloons, mostly.

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    !#@%*)anks for hanging up the phone, dear.
  2. Re:This is insane... by bani · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    "It's not like the original movie will suddenly become a crappy movie."

    ... uh, because it already IS a crappy movie?

    there's plenty of anime worth the live action treatment 100,000x more than akira.

    in fact I can think of few anime less deserving of it except, say, anpanman -- or maybe that preachy pile of totally cliche gainax trash called evangelion.