The possibility of a live taking of the anime film of 1988 Akira De Warner Bros is no longer, because Deadline has confirmed that the right has come off, now returned to the manga editor Kodansha.
The film directed by Katsuhiro ôomo follows a member of the biker gang for adolescents who transforms into a unleashed psychic psychopath after a secret military project puts neo-tokyo in danger. Protag learns that it has telekinetic capacities that are dangerous for the word. His best friend is the only guy to stop him.
The lot of Burbank, California, has cinematographic rights since 2002 with directors like Stephen Norrington, Albert Hughes, Jaume Collet-Serra and Taika Waititi. The Appian Way of Leonardo DiCaprio was running and at some point, Akira, had a tax credit in California of $ 18.5 million. Promenade Star Michael Pitt was even attached to the project at some point, then Garret Hedlund. Kristen Stewart, Helena Bonham-Cartter and Ken Watanabe even kicked the tires Akira.
Here is the thing: transforming the anime into live action films or even a television series is difficult. Two of the most prolific projects were failures: Paramount turned the years 1995 Ghost in the shell In a large screen of $ 110 million, take Scarlett Johansson. The film sang just over 40 million dollars and less than $ 170 million worldwide, rejected by fans for having whitewashed the original. The result served as a Harbinger to the film studios to avoid adaptation to the big screen anime. Netflix made a 2021 series Cowboy Bebop With John Cho, Mustafa Shakir and Daniella Pineda. In a total shock, the streamer canceled a second season for the series less than a month after his return in December 2021. Shinichiro Watanabe, the original creator of the Cowboy Bebop animated series, expressed at Forbes That he could not look at the action live to take.
THR who first reported the story on AkiraIt is just indicated today that development has increased in eight figures over 20 years. There would be an auction war for Akira, But no party has been appointed.
