The NZA Posted July 16, 2011 Author Share Posted July 16, 2011 they could film it for like half of that in oklahoma or something...i'ma go write the studio with this idea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newtype Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 i sure as shit did not read the script, but would love highlights. location shift, from Neo-Tokyo to New Manhattan. Plucky young rebels fighting an evil corporation, called the Foundation. Everybody gets ID chips. In the film, it's called the SubQ ID System. Akira is now housed beneath the "memorial bunker" commemorating the initial destruction of the city. It's described as a blank expanse of concrete with two "massive blue spot lights beam[ing] into the heavens. Millions of names etched along the walls. Kaneda and Tetsuo Travis are brothers now, and in their early thirties. Kaneda is now a bitter, jaded blackmarket doctor, and Tetsuo is a shell-shocked, tortured junkie, alienated from the world. In the remake, they've changed Akira -- from a victim, a mysterious force, and a childlike god figure -- into a screen villain cliche: The generic scary child with psychic powers. He sings "unsettling" nursery rhymes, he carries around a disused stuffed animal, and casually murders people with his mind powers. Akira's official theme. Every single time he makes an appearance, even if it's just in PTSD Tetsuo's nightmares, the script calls for 'Frere Jacques' to be played. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thelogan Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 (edited) That pretty accurately sums it up. I'm glad you mentioned the painfully retarded "Frere Jacques" bit, that was the part that made me cringe the most when I was visualizing it in my head. Edited July 16, 2011 by Thelogan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted July 16, 2011 Author Share Posted July 16, 2011 oh, wow. some of that...this might be more accurately translated via interpretive fucking dance. related: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newtype Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Kristen Stewart has reportedly been offered the female lead in Jaume Collet-Sera‘s adaptation of Akira. Stewart–who co-stars with Hedlund in the upcoming adaptation of On the Road–is already trying to break free of the damsel-in-distress Bella Swan character by taking on the Snow-White-as-Action-Hero role (weird to write that) in Snow White and the Huntsman. Akira may be another opportunity for her to make sure she’s not seen as Bella for the rest of her career. Since Bella is barely a character, I don’t think that will be too much of a problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lycaon Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Please, are we really surprised by the prospect of this sucking by now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newtype Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 We know it's going to suck hard. It's just fucking annoying that this is still being called Akira when the movie has nothing to do with the book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lycaon Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Unless it's a rifftrax version, I'm not planning on watching it. Haven't been for a while. Might have a watching party of the real version on the night the crap version comes out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newtype Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Protip: rifftrax doesn't always help when watching a real bad movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiffytee Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 you know what's funny... if you said back when titanic came out, that leo d was gonna be kanada, everybody'd go apeshit, but now we would welcome him with open arms to the role. funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lycaon Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 A couple of differences: 1) Not interested in Titanic. I did like Akira, though. 2) If I were interested, I'd seen him in What's Eating Gilbert Grape before that and knew that he had some range as an actor. I can't claim such knowledge of Kristen Stewart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Jax Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 No one is welcoming Leo with open arms. Firstly, he producing it, not starring, it seems at least for now, and secondly, I think no one is happy with the idea of a white-washed PG-13 Akira set in Manhattan, no matter which awesome white actors are cast. I have nothing against Kristin Stewart. It's hard to make it in the acting business, I don't judge actors by the roles they take when they're trying to make a name for themselves, just want the do with those roles, and as the quoted article said, Bella is a non-character. I could be any actress, it would still be a problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lycaon Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Seen her in anything else? It may just be the roles that she's offered, but she seems the same every time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Jax Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Seen her in anything else? It may just be the roles that she's offered, but she seems the same every time. I have not, but again, I don't care how good the white actors that they cast are. It could be Natalie Portman or Hilary Swank or Anna Paquin or any other actress that has proven herself in great performances, it doesn't make any different. This movie could star Laurence Olivier and James Dean in their primes, if it's still a PG-13 Akira set in Manhattan with white actors, it's self-evidently going to suck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lycaon Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 It's not going to be the Akira we're familiar with, no. That said, it's possible (though not probable) that they could make a good movie with this set in New York, with any damn type of actor they want. When they hire people that have not displayed much in the way of emotional range in their roles, it becomes a little less possible with each addition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Jax Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 (edited) I would bet money this movie will not be good. It's evident they have no intention of telling a good story. Akira doesn't just happen to be Japanese, it's a specifically rooted in Japanese culture and themes specific to the Japanese consciousness. It's like remaking Gone With the Wind but set in 1990's Beverly Hills instead of 1860's Georgia for no goddamn reason. Remaking Romeo & Juliet in 1990's California made sense because it demonstrated the universality and timelessness of the story. But Akira can no more be ripped away from Japan than Gone With The Wind can be from the Civil War and Reconstruction Era American South, or remake Casablanca in modern-day Toronto. Edited November 23, 2011 by Reverend Jax Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lycaon Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 No one thinks this will be good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Jax Posted November 25, 2011 Share Posted November 25, 2011 No one thinks this will be good. it's possible (though not probable) that they could make a good movie with this set in New York, with any damn type of actor they want. I don't even think it's possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iambaytor Posted November 25, 2011 Share Posted November 25, 2011 I'm with Ly, the whitening isn't necesserily a problem. Unlike say, Dragon Ball, it doesn't rely as much on Japanese culture/mythology and you could transpose the entire story into Manhattan and so long as Akira is played by a Japanese kid it would still be acceptable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lycaon Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Warner Bros. finally catches up to everyone else and realizes a live-action Akira isn't such a great idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mortiis558 Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 Thank god.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newtype Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Sigh. A live-action American adaptation of the hugely influential anime Akira has proven to be a difficult project to get off the ground. Warner Bros. originally acquired the rights back in 2008 and were looking to produce the film quickly alongside Leonardo Dicaprio’s Appain Way, but less than a year later, it was shut down due to scheduling conflicts. Then, over the course of the next several years, directors like the Hughes Brothers, screenwriters like Gary Whitta, and actors like James Franco, Gary Oldman, Garrett Heldund, Helena Bonham-Carter, Zac Efron, and Keanu Reeves have been attached to the long-gestating project, but nothing has yet materialized. All the while, controversy raged about the film “westernizing the story” by setting it in a post-apocalyptic Manhattan and casting white American or British actors as Japanese characters like Tetsuo and Kaneda. The latest setback to occur in the endless Akira adaptation saga occurred when Non-Stop and Orphan director Jaume Collet-Serra came aboard to helm the movie in early 2014, but once again things moved at a glacial pace as casting negotiations dragged and the director struggled to get the budget down to Warners’ requested $60-70 million. Unfortunately, these issues led to Warner Bros. pulling the plug on Collet-Sera and shutting down Akira‘s Vancouver production facilities yet again. However, there is now renewed hope that Akira will actually get made, and Warners is looking to the highly successful Netflix series Daredevil for a creative force to take on the challenge. According to THR, new Daredevil showrunner Marco J. Ramirez is set to write yet another draft of the Akira screenplay for Warner Brothers. Ramirez – who also worked on Sons of Anarchy and DaVinci’s Demons – is taking over showrunning duties on the Marvel Netflix series from previous head honcho Steven S. DeKnight, who is moving on to join the Transformers writing room. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keth Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 It really sucks that Deknight left DD to work on goddamn Transformers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted May 25, 2019 Author Share Posted May 25, 2019 source Taika Waititi's Akira has set a date.The adaptation of the classic Manga will open on May 21, 2021, Warner Bros. announced Friday. Leonardo DiCaprio is producing though his Appian Way along with Andrew Lazar. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keth Posted May 25, 2019 Share Posted May 25, 2019 ..... Well I've never felt more conflicted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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