Otomo Katsuhiro

AKIRA Lands ‘Get Out’ Helmer Jordan Peele With Talks To Direct

Fact: Actor and comedian Jordan Peele is the person I think anyone commonly would be sought after for a big scale production like the long-gestating Akira movie from Warner Bros. Pictures. Nonetheless, you would be wise to look at the successes the aforementioned comedy star has earned having helmed one of the more zestful flicks as of late, Get Out, for Blumhouse as per his directorial debut. That film has since crossed well past the $150 million dollar barrier since releasing in theaters on February 24 apart from its rave reviews in the weeks following its Sundance premiere if thereafter. Such is the zeitgeist that now embroils the appeal in which Peele now lays potential claim with word via The Wrap that he is now in talks to pick up where Warner Bros. Pictures left off in its efforts to find a director for the long-gestating development of the live-action […]

Christopher Nolan Reportedly Helping Turn AKIRA Into A Trilogy

Lee B. Golden III

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 […]

Warner Bros.'s AKIRA Gets New Life With A New Writer

Lee B. Golden III

Writer Marco J. Ramirez will be stepping in with Doug Petrie to carry on the story for Netflix’s Daredevil series upon its forthcoming second season. Beyond that, Ramirez’s name bares mentioning with reports now making the rounds that he’ll be penning the script to revive Warner Bros. long-awaited film adaptation of the 1982 classic manga/anime property, Akira. The report comes less than six months after it was reported that original author Otomo Katsuhiro would be launching his own efforts to get a live-action film going, ultimately in response to the last thirteen years of stops and starts in Hollywood. Much of the stagnation had been reportedly due to budget, scheduling and script issue, with Non-Stop and Run All Night helmer Jaume Collet-Serra eventually stepping down at the time after being attached back in 2013. Proceeded by its feature-length anime in 1988, Akira centers on a post-apocalyptic future in the city […]

AKIRA Creator Announces His Own Push For Live-Action Treatment

Lee B. Golden III

Contrary to how some may feel, Hollywood adaptations of Japanese properties have long been the ire of many hardcore fans heavily active in manga and anime lore. Such has largely been the case for filmmaker, author and writer Otomo Katsuhiro whose 1982 cyberpunk action manga epic from Kodansha, Akira, has received its recent accolades more so in the world of independent film than anything, on top of its thirty-year popularity. Accordingly, you would think that twelve years would be more than enough for Warner Bros. to see the development and production of its own take on the popular manga/anime, now with uncredited Edge Of Tomorrow scribe Dante Harper providing a script for Non-Stop helmer Jaume Collet-Serra to direct. Well, that last update was over the summer, and it’s likely that fans are just passing the time to see what comes without too much anticipation at that. However, if you’re waiting […]