Well, it happened. After 20 years of shaking Creative teams and development hell, Warner Bros. ultimately called it and will not get back Akira.
But things don’t end up there, according to the Hollywood Reporter. WB’s Simply Let of the Film Rights It got back in 2002. They have now returned to the publisher of the Manga, Kodansha; According to THR, several producers and talents are already “aligned” for the possibility of adapting it. No specific people have been listed, Ditto studios or streamers, but you can imagine all the big ones want it.
WB threatened to do Akira Remake directed or written by Stephen Norrington, Garry Whitta, Jaume Collet-Serra, or others. One of the more recent names ejected there was Tanks direct and co-write in 2017, and it was even intended to release in May 2021. But after Waititi was locked up for Thor: Love and Thunder and other projects, the remake was drawn from the publishing schedule. Since then, there was no word about it.
As Texas chain massacre And Saw in front of it, Akira Now has a chance at a real future on the big screen. The question now is, who will be the one to bring it to the masses, and how will that movie change the source for a new public, which probably only knows it because of the endlessly replicated slide?
Waiting to see how that shakes is the in-development Akira Anime -series of Gundam Studio Sunriseassuming That sometimes leaves the development hell.
Do you want more Io9 news? Look when waiting for the latest Marvel,, Star Warsand Star Trek releases what follows for the Dc universe in movie and televisionand everything you need to know about the future of A doctor who.
