Warner Bros. Pictures has had an off-and-on-again relationship with Akira for over a decade now. The original Japanese manga ran from 1982-1990, with an anime feature film adaptation in 1988. Akira depicts a world devastated by WWIII, and a rebuilt Neo Tokyo that falls into further apocalyptic chaos when testing on some “gifted” individuals goes awry.
A live-action U.S. remake has been in development hell seemingly forever, with a slew of potential directors (The Hughes Brothers, Jaume Collet-Serra, Christopher Nolan, George Miller), stars (Zac Efron, James Franco, Keanu Reeves, Garrett Hedlund), and writers (Steve Kloves, Jonathan Nolan) coming and going from the project, and consistent news updates that the project is greenlit, then dead, then back on again. The most recent development ...
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