Hollywood doesn’t have a good track record when it comes to adapting anime/manga properties for the big screen, as evidenced by the underwhelming box office returns (and at best lukewarm, at worst hostile, critical reactions) for such live-action films as Dragonball: Evolution and Speed Racer, as well as the animated Astro Boy – all three of which hit theaters in the late 2010s, as it were. Of course, that isn’t stopping Paramount Pictures from moving forward with the Scarlet Johansson-led Ghost in the Shell, nor has it prevented rumors about Hollywood film adaptations of franchise like Naruto and Bleach from popping up every now and then.
Similarly, a live-action version of Akira – Katsuhiro Otomo’s celebrated cyberpunk anime series-turned acclaimed ...
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