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Akira comes to life Feb. 20, 2008
Source: Variety   by: Dave Davis

Neo-Tokyo is about to EXPLODE! And the guy with his hand on the detonator is... Ruairi Robinson?

As was rumored several months ago by the fine freaks at Bloody Disgusting, Irish director Ruairi Robinson will be bringing Katsuhiro Ôtomo's post-apocalyptic AKIRA from printed page and animation cel to human and CGI life. Warner Bros. plans to turn the seemingly endless manga series into two live-action features, the first of which is due in Summer 2009. The new flick reportedly shifts the setting to a devastated and reconstructed Manhattan.

Director Steve Norrington (BLADE, LXG) was involved in the project years ago before he entered semi-retirement and the property went into limbo. Robinson, who is making his feature debut, reportedly landed the job based on his impressive dystopic sci-fi short THE SILENT CITY, which you can watch RIGHT HERE.

AKIRA follows a gang of superbike-riding pill-eating teens (these kids love pills so much, they wear clothing with pictures of pills on them, delicious pills) who roam the futuristic roads fighting with rivals and screaming a lot. One of the members gets caught up in a government experiment and develops psychic powers, leading to a massive destructive battle with the gang's leader.

Extra Tidbit: Tetsuooooooooooooooooo!!!!!! And so on.

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mcfly24 on Feb 22 2008, 2:58:50 PM writes:
WTF TETSUOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I really think they are half-assing this. Put a veteran director with experience in sci-fi on this and call it a day. Newbies don't get it right the first time. I love Akira, and if they mess it up, I'll be the loudest one in their face about it. The matrix 3 setups the 2 guys fighting in midair fight that the end of akira would need. The military/politic bickering is revelant and everyone is doing movies about the end of the world, so...
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Jack Grimaldi on Feb 21 2008, 9:19:08 PM writes:

why would they even do this!?!?! I love Akira. There's no reason they need to make it live action. it was awesome because it was a ground breaking ANIME movie.

What the fuck!
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ruskwerk on Feb 21 2008, 8:54:36 AM writes:

I was more excited when Steve Norrington was planning to direct this.... I just hope Mr. Robinson can pull it off....... and why do they have to change the setting? and y does it have to be 2 live action movies? Is this gonna be like Kill Bill? If Warner is going to change some things, it would be better if Tetsuo is going to have some extra abilities like K999, but i guess that wouldn't be right since Tetsuo first came out and K999 is somewhat created as a tribute to Tetsuo.....
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Trans-Warp on Feb 21 2008, 6:21:27 AM writes:
KANEDA!!!
I hope the DBZ movie flops and they stop right there in transforming manga/anime into movies... Some things are better left in 2D.
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afulinara on Feb 21 2008, 5:34:46 AM writes:

No good will come of this. This is will end up just like Roland Emmerich's "Godzilla," except i'll actually care.
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rilocay on Feb 20 2008, 11:46:17 PM writes:

I want this to be great. But it need's to be perfect. I'm no so sure how this will work (other than it being better than try-hard kanye's daft rip-off stronger clip), but you never know! But yeah, I spose if it were ameircan's in Tokyo it'd be odd...so i understand nyc. My bet is apart from the statue of liberty, we won't recognise the city at all though!
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Lionetti on Feb 20 2008, 11:13:01 PM writes:
I DON'T KNOW...
I want to see what this guy does with a serious budget, and a studio behind him. But, the gamble is Akira...hmmm. That's a serious gamble. I haven't felt like this since news hit that Zack Snyder was going to do the DAWN remake, and look what he brought to the table for us, I think I'm going to have Ruairi Robinson's back on this. I got a good feeling about'em. What I am iffy about is the story set in NYC, and seeing Japanese characters converted into a bunch of snotty american cool kids. I hope they take a more imaginative, and colorful approach with there casting, and overall production design, or this will be some MTV garbage. I pray that this has foreign influence other than the director. Mr. Robinson's got his hands full on this one, good luck, and good night.
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MrMassive on Feb 20 2008, 10:40:51 PM writes:
DAMN IT!!!!
I was happy when I thought this project was dead. When was the last time hollywood produced an adaptation like this and it turned out well? That's not even factoring in the incredible complexities that a film like this would involve. I would like nothing more than for this to happen and turn out to be just as awesome as the original. But reality leads me to believe otherwise.
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tylerj on Feb 20 2008, 9:17:22 PM writes:

It's about time!

but seriously... NYC? please no.
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Obergeist on Feb 20 2008, 9:15:27 PM writes:
NEO-TOKYO
It has to be Neo-Tokyo. It just wouldn't feel right.

Aint It Cool says that Leonardo Dicaprio is producing and "have it on good authority that he is also set to star as the lead, Kaneda". So I guess thats something.
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