Akira movie gets director‏

[Roy Mustang]

Albert Hughes, one half of the Hughes Brothers directing team responsible for films including Menace II Society, Dead Presidents, and The Book of Eli, will helm the production of at least the first of Warner Bros.' two planned live action Akira movies. New York Magazine reported in February that the Hughes Brothers were in negotiations with Warner to take the reigns of the production. Warner acquired the rights to produce an American live action adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo's 1982 manga in 2008.

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[Bobtheduck]

Another single story comic getting turned into a movie that has no way of telling its story. Akira is too freaking long to make a single movie about and do it well, unless you're just going to make it a mind (confusing) effects fest.

You know, like the Anime was.

[rocklobster]

I thought this was scrapped.

[Bobtheduck]

I thought this was scrapped.

No, just on hiatus. Maybe it's picking up, now.

[ShiroiHikari]

Bob is right. Squashing several volumes into 2 hours didn't work in the 1980s and it's not gonna work now.

[Roy Mustang]

Question: could it work if they made two movies for it as part one and part two or is the comic still too long to be made into two movies.


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[mechana2015]

Question: could it work if they made two movies for it as part one and part two or is the comic still too long to be made into two movies.


Col. Roy Mustang

Still wouldn't work. The Akira manga is six very thick A4 sized books (around an inch and a half each), and the animated movie really only scratched the surface of the story, just partially covering the first 2 volumes, and forcing it to jump to a small portion of the sixth book with little explanation, while still spending 2 hours on it.

My guess would be around three three hour movies to cover it decently, at minimum.

[rocklobster]

My guess would be around three three hour movies to cover it decently, at minimum.

Since when has Hollywood cared that much about authenticity?

[mechana2015]

Since when has Hollywood cared that much about authenticity?

That wasn't the point of my post at all. I was positing how many movies it would take since Roy was asking whether the two movies might cover it better.

Short version of my post to Roy: Yes, the comic is too long for 2 movies.

[Yamamaya]

Well this has a better chance of success than a Live Action Evangelion(which according to recent news could start up this summer).