Akira has got the green light

If it's not Japanese styled with Japanese core actors, their core demographic (assuming they care much about the fans of the original) will likely shun it.

It's a sticky one, like the proposed Neon Genesis Evangelion movie (even Peter Jackson seems a bit tentative about that one). It's an iconic anime, so if they stuff it up, the backlash from fans won't be insignificant......
 
Mmm. I put in a resume with them, back around February.

Having read some of the (admittedly early) development materials,* I am the very opposite of optimistic. It's essentially a use of the title (presumably for Q-factor) attached to a story, setting and characters virtually irrelevant to the original.

*EDIT - the material that's already floating around out there, that is - not what was current at the time I was at Warner
 
Watched the Anime for the first time a few months back.. started off really well, but have to admit I was completely lost by the 3rd act... I just can't see how they spin this into a Hollywood flick, unless it undergoes a drastic rewrite.
 
ManofWords said:
Warners reportedly want the ever popular Kristen Stewart for the role of Kei in Akira
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What? I agree with Tetsuo on this one.

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Hopefully they'll at least get the eye-candy like the bike right. Still, doesn't make sense without it being Japanese. Akira (like much of anime really) is so dependent on cultural imprint of being nuked. Oppenheimer stated it best when he said "now we are all sons of bitches", but I think that's a historic undercurrent that hollywood will determine to be unprofitable. Not trying to be political, just noting a sad irony and having a dig at hollywood. What's the bet that in the board room they drew a sick comparison between events in New York and what happened in Japan and saw dollars. And no doubt that's where the action will move to. And Kaneda will be renamed Jack.

When will hollywood learn that people who aren't fans ask friends who are before laying down their cash on a fan movie. Conversely an excited fan will force non-fan friends to check out the (rare) movie that caters to its core demographic. As well as watching several times in the cinema themselves. I saw Tron Legacy three times. Not the greatest film ever made but (unlike Star Wars) didn't mess with the canon and gave me the eye candy I've craved for 25 years. The whole bar scene was totally unnecessary but given 75% of the film was referencing every special effects movie ever made that was clearly it's tip of the hat to the matrix. To sum up, it's not even art to respect cultural icons, it's good business to treat them with the respect they deserve. *sigh*
 
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