Akira Live Action Re-Make A Go?

Posted by on Feb 11, 2010 in Movies

With an official release from the studio expected later this week, we have heard early rumors that the Hughes brothers, known for their urban crime drama Menace II Society and more recently The Book of Eli, is negotiating with Warner Bros. to bring the cyberpunk Akira manga to the silver screen.

Originally released in 1982, Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira debuted. The manga become a feature film anime, directed by Otomo. Akira changed the way many outside Japan thought about Japanese animation. Even if you had read all of Katsuhiro Otomo’s epic 1982 manga and/or seen his own 1988 anime adaptation, summarizing the plot to Akira would still prove a bit of a challenge. As near as we can figure, Akira is about the leader of a biker gang who tries to save his kidnapped pal from a powerful supernatural experiment.

It’s looking like the live action remake of the cult classic will have a a script by Iron Man scribes Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby and produced by Leonardo DiCaprio’s company, Appian Way.