Storyboards Surface From Delayed Live Action 'Akira' Movie [Art]

wow what a totally uninspired intro sequence. besides money, what purpose does remaking this movie serve. its like bad multimillion dollar fanart. remaking this movie is like remaking 2001 A Space Odyssey. Are these soulless uninspired schlock merchants so creatively bankrupt they can't pen an original story? They could at least save themselves money in trademark purchasing and licensing agreements. What a disgrace.

How the new Akira movie will look if someone is retarded enough to release it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jafd97yJFOI.

Nobody's screaming each others names so I don't understand what's happening.

If Akira is going to be made into a live action film, there is no better time than now for an American audience/National audience to see a film with a predominantly Japanese cast with the main roles being occupied by Japanese actors. Hell, even use the original language in it, or a melting pot of languages! It is the future you know? We are ready, even if your not. you. are. ready.

I'm not sure if American movie producers don't know or don't care that the Japanese take pride in a story like Akira (though not the only story) being of it's people and culture. Even as fiction Akira is true in its topics and themes.

rewrites budget cuts of the adaptation of akira set in Neo Manhhatan, yeah theres no way that gonna sucks

Akira is pretty important to Japan. I've read the comics, and the amount of subtext is thick enough to cut. There are American battleships waiting off the coast of Japan to destroy Akira if necessary (a fear that reflects when American battleships bombed Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and many other major and minor cities around Japan), the threat of biological warfare, foreign spies. And what's more symbolic is that all of this conflict and fear of the outside world is juxtaposed against the Olympic games that Tokyo wanted to host throughout the series. It's some deep stuff.

Can the US version pull it off? They could if they go about it very intelligently. Judging from previous adaptations, are they going to pull it off? No way in hell.

this just screams BAD like all the rest of the adaptions. even series we grew to love in the US like Dragonball which everyone has seen still, the live action adaption blows like it was made by the 6 people who know nothing about dbz same thing here they are gonna look over the core material and ask what can we make in this more american and the answer is nothing

Neo Manhattan??? booo! stop white washing american film....this is a story about JAPAN and JAPANESE characters...god forbid American Audiences see a non white leading role...OMG!!

Nah.