Plot: Katsuhiro Otomo's famed Japanese manga Akira takes the leap into live-action territory with this production from Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures. Leonardo DiCaprio produces the film. Read More
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Hollywood deserters: David O. Russell has left Sony's 'Uncharted: Drake's Fortune' and Albert Hughes has exited the helm of Warner Bros.' live-action remake of the Japanese manga project 'Akira.' The reasons given for both: the standard 'creative...
Japanese actor George Takei took to Twitter to take on the whitewashing of the upcoming film adaptation of the manga 'Akira.' The beloved graphic novel was made into a 1988 animated film, and the 2011 American remake would be live-action. 'Akira' is a...
The long-gestating live-action adaptation of 'Akira,' Khasatsuhiro Otomo's six-volume graphic novel about bikers and psionic kids involved in a secret military project in a futuristic, post-apocalyptic Neo-Tokyo, is now picking up steam for Warner Bros....

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