It seems like the Akira live-action movie might be happening after all. Announced a few years ago, the Hollywood adaptation of the acclaimed Japanese animation movie has been changing status, with many directors and creative teams getting on board just to abandon the project later. But now, it looks like it’s finally moving forward.
In 2019, Warner Bros. Discovery announced that Taika Waititi would take the story to the big screen, with Leonardo DiCaprio attached to produce with his Appian Way banner. Since then, news has been on and off, especially with the director having his plate full with many projects like Reservation Dogs, Our Flag Means Death, and Thor: Love & Thunder.
Waititi was one of the surprising absences at the Star Wars Celebration, but now that he’s set to direct and maybe star in his own movie for the franchise. But the live-action Akira might have been the reason for him not showing up at the event. According to Deadline veteran reporter Justin Kroll, Waititi is working on the project right now:
“Since everyone is wondering where his STAR WARS film is, if I were a betting man my guess is Taika’s next movie is his AKIRA movie at WB, which he put on shelf to do L&T. He never left the film and word is script should be into studio soon. Again nothing set in stone as the film would go through regular process before greenlight including figuring out a budget but sounds like all his focus is on that project.”
The Story of Akira
Akira is a post-apocalyptic cyberpunk anime film directed by Katsuhiro Ōtomo, released in 1988. It is an adaptation of the homonymous manga created by Otomo himself and co-written with the help of Izo Hashimoto.
In the metropolis of Neo-Tokyo, a city located on the ruins of the old city of Tokyo, destroyed years ago by a worldwide explosion, lives Tetsuo (voiced by Nozomu Sasaki). After having suffered a difficult childhood, he is subjected as a test subject to a machine designed to develop the psychic abilities found within each of us. The experiment is a success, and Tetsuo comes out as a completely different person than he was.
Endowed with superhuman power that not even he controls, Tetsuo decides to start a war against the world oppressing him. However, he soon finds himself at the center of a legend about the expected return of Akira, a boy with extraordinary powers capable of saving Tetsuo from the chaos surrounding him.
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