Christopher Nolan Reportedly Helping Turn AKIRA Into A Trilogy
Courtesy of Toho Filmmaker and producer Christopher Nolan recently announced that he has a new untitled film set to open on July 21, 2017. As of this week, Den of Geek has at least one theory with news that Nolan has boarded the long-gestating live-action adaptation of the classic sci-fi manga, Akira, and has met with a certain director that was once attached to helm the film within the last thirteen years of the film’s development. The report states that the goal may be a trilogy with Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way banner producing the Warner Bros. film from a script by Daredevil season two co-scribe Marco J. Ramirez. The 1982 Kodansha publication by creator Otomo Katsuhiro and the 1988 anime film that followed focused on two members of a biker gang, childhood friends Kaneda and Tetsuo, living in post-apocalyptic Neo-Tokyo who find themselves embroiled in government corruption and secrecy when […]