Warner Bros. Offers Up on ‘Akira’ Remake, However Hollywood Will not

Properly, it’s occurred. After 20 years of shuffling creative teams and improvement hell, Warner Bros. lastly known as it and gained’t remake Akira.

However issues aren’t ending there, in keeping with the Hollywood Reporter. WB’s merely let go of the film rights it acquired again in 2002. They’ve now returned to the manga’s writer, Kodansha; in keeping with THR, a number of producers and skills are already “lining up” for the possibility to adapt it. No particular individuals have been listed, ditto studios or streamers, however you may think about all the large ones need it.

WB’s been threatening to do an Akira remake directed or written by both Stephen Norrington, Garry Whitta, Jaume Collet-Serra, or others. One of many newer names thrown on the market was Taika Waititi to direct and co-write in 2017, and it was even meant to launch in Might 2021. However after Waititi was locked in for Thor: Love & Thunder and different tasks, the remake received pulled from the discharge schedule. Since then, there’s been no phrase on it.

Like Texas Chainsaw Bloodbath and Noticed earlier than it, Akira now has an opportunity at an actual future on the large display screen. The query now could be, who’ll be the one to carry it to the lots, and the way will that movie change the supply for a brand new viewers that in all probability solely is aware of it due to the endlessly replicated slide?

Whereas ready to see how that shakes out, there’s the in-development Akira anime sequence from Gundam studio Sunrise, assuming that ever leaves improvement hell.

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