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If Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi were to helm the live-action Akira film, he would cast Asian actors in the main roles. That’s what he told IGN in an interview published by the site this week. In the interview, Waititi was very coy about whether …Read more »
Every time you think the live-action Hollywood adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira is down for the count, it pops another capsule and jumps back on the bike. According to Deadline Hollywood, Akira is “revving back up,” and Taika Waititi, who directed Thor: Ragnarok, is in …Read more »
Tetsuo reached out to no avail. Jordan Peele, the comedian and actor who made his directorial debut with this year’s hit Get Out , will not direct the live-action Akira film. The filmmaker had reportedly been in talks to helm the film. Peele told William …Read more »
Big shout-out to Boing Boing, who have stumbled across and shared this amazing Tumblr full of high-quality production materials from Akira , the 1988 classic that needs no introduction (or shouldn’t, anyway, but as it ages, you do meet folks who haven’t seen it). Subject-28 …Read more »
I’m not sure how many times I’ve typed something like this: “Warner Bros. is looking at (insert name of director) for its live-action Akira film.” But, uh, it’s a lot. The long-delayed live-action version of the Katsuhiro Otomo manga/anime has been through more directors than …Read more »
The live-action Akira film. Neither living nor dead, it resides in a limbo state not unlike that of a zombie, feeding on the brains of hapless anime journalists. The latest spasm of quasi-life for the long, long, long-delayed film come from entertainment news writer Jeff …Read more »
What’s Akira creator and director Katsuhiro Otomo up to these days? One rumor has it he’s at work on a live-action film version of his own classic manga from the 80s, Domu ; in another, he’s working on a shonen manga set in the Meiji …Read more »
Though the original soundtrack to anime classic Akira was a booming choral affair by Japanese musical collective Geinoh Yamashirogumi, it’s not a stretch to imagine the film accompanied by electronic dance music. As it happens, EDM producer Nathan Micay, also known as Bwana, has turned …Read more »
Akira Himekawa is a pair of manga creators known for their work on adapting The Legend of Zelda series, including Ocarina of Time , Majora's Mask , Oracle of Seasons , Oracle of Ages , Four Swords , The Minish Cap , A Link to …Read more »
This month the magazine V Jump released a giant, glossy book called Dragon Ball 30th Anniversary Super History Book . With tons of full-color pages, art and behind-the-scenes information, it seems like a must for fans of Akira Toriyama’s world-famous manga. But more importantly for …Read more »
You may have heard about the Bartkira project , which has hundreds of artists from across the globe working to recreate Katsuhiro Otomo's epic Akira manga with characters from The Simpsons . The project started with some art from Ryan Humphrey, and with the assistance …Read more »
Akira , the classic anime film that helped launch a wave of anime fandom in these here United States, is, believe it or not, almost thirty years old. Geez Louise. Akira used to be practically required viewing for anime fans who grew up in the …Read more »
It's a strange, post-modern art project that shouldn't really work but somehow does: Bartkira , the project started in 2013 to redraw all of Akira with characters from The Simpsons . Ridiculous as the premise is, it's no small undertaking: the original Akira manga spans …Read more »
Concept art for an earlier version of the live-action Akira film. While things have been moving lately for the live-action Ghost in the Shell film, the same can’t be said for Akira . In a brief interview over at Collider, director Jaume Collet-Serra, who is …Read more »
"Katsuhiro Otomo" by uzaigaijin The details aren’t yet clear, but it appears Katsuhiro Otomo is at work on a new live-action film. This will be the third live-action film for Otomo, the manga artist-turned-director who created Akira and helmed films like Memories , Steamboy , …Read more »
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