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Live Action Akira Film Is Dead
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cynopt
06/15/09

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Thank ya lord!

Good god, the only thing that would be worse than a live action Akira movie would be a live version of Evangelion... Oh yea. Shit.
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tetracycloide
06/15/09

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the sheer volume on commenters here insisting that the original akira was perfect in every way and that tinkering with it would be a travesty is abjectly depressing because the vast majority of said comments refer to the anime as 'the original akira.'
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TrueCrime
06/15/09

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"Are you ready, talking bike?"

"I was born ready, Kaneda!"
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Belabras ate my dingo!
06/15/09

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Much as I love Akira, I don't think any live action adaptation would have done it justice.

I hate to celebrate the passing of any project, but I'm at least not sad to see this go.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
06/15/09

@Belabras shot the food: It would have required a shit-ton of CG to do the action parts justice, and with that, fans will either complain that it looks too fake, or that it's "all CG". What's wrong with cels, eh?
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CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
06/15/09

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GOOD.This never needed a remake or a reimagining or anything else. Its a classic all onto itself. Its Mangas opus. Its beautiful in every way and one of my favourite animated films ever. Most out there will agree its unbeilevable and doesnt need Hollywoods grubby hands all over it. Granted Dicaprio and his team seemed a safer bet than most, it was still getting on my nerves. It would either come out and be huge, but be compared to every other Neo Tokyo futuristic film even though Akira started most. Or it would be a big pile of shit and hurt the image of the original. This I couldnt have!!

Is like when dredd came out. In the cinemas it didnt do to bad and dispite bad/good reviews. The one thing reviewers latched onto (stupidly) was how it looked like Blade Runners city, how the cityscape had been forged in The Fith Element. How Dredds no holds barred attitude about law was like that of Robocop. Yet everyone failed to undestand the source material was older than most of those films it was compared too.

My point is, keep Akira a cartoon. Dont let Hollywood fuck it up because theyve run out of ideas. It sounds awful, but I would rather hear about another High School Musical (Belch), than Akira getting the 'live' treatment!!
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Jim Topoleski
06/15/09

@CoffinDodger: "GOOD.This never needed a remake or a reimagining or anything else. Its a classic all onto itself"

I dont know about this. After all they planned to film the MANGA and not the anime.

The two only share characters and some plotline, the Manga takes it in a WHOLE different direction from the once you get to King Tetsuo.
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CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
06/15/09

@Jim Topoleski: So your saying Akira is a doubtful classic!!! A film that not only revolutionised animation and western concept towards Japanese art/cartoons. But by far has stil got the pulling power of millions of fans. Granted Manga have other amazing films. Patlabour and Ghost in the Shell, being 2. But Akira pushed the envelope.

It is a classic, just like Beauty and the Beast or The Lion King. Lets not forget, the Buck doesnt stop at Disney and Pixars mammoth studios.
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Plague
06/15/09

@CoffinDodger: Either you don't read much Manga or watch a lot of Anime- your points are dated and rather superficial. There is a hell of a lot more out there than Patlabor and GITS.
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Jim Topoleski
06/15/09

@CoffinDodger: Ohhhk down fanboy.

"A film that not only revolutionised animation and western concept towards Japanese art/cartoons. "

Thats utter bull it revolutionized nothing. Come back here after watching Nausicaa or Castle in the Sky.

THOSE revolutionized westerners concepts toward Anime. Its a well known fact that Pixar wouldn't be the company it is today if John Lasseter had not been a huge fan of Hayao Miyazaki.

I am sorry but the credit of Akira showing how "adult" anime could be is extremely overblown. Its a great film, dont get me wrong, but it really didnt mainstream anything.

As it is today, anime like Akira is still not mainstream. I highly doubt I am going to see the new Battle Cruiser Yamato here, and I sure know Ghost in the Shell Innocence didnt get a wide release here.

Howls Moving Castle did though.
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tetracycloide
06/15/09

@Jim Topoleski: Howl's Moving Castle, as good was it was, did not recive a wide release in the states by any stretch of the imagination. Miyazakis are no more mainstream than Akira state side. That doesn't stop both Miyazaki's films and Akira from being revolutionary in their own right. There are hundreds of other artists who would not be the artists they are today without Akira, just like John Lasseter and Hayao Miyazaki's films. To pretend that one is superior to the other is just silly, they're both hugely influencial on both sides of the pacific.
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