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Is the Live-Action Akira Movie Dead?
14 June 2009 9:31 PM, PDT
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Early last year Warner Bros. announced that it was planning to turn anime artist Katsuhiro Otomo's six-volume graphic novel Akira into two live-action feature films. The first flick was said to be on the fast-track for a summer 2009 release.
Well, summer ’09 is here and there’s no Akira film on the horizon. Instead, the folks over at Bloody Disgusting are reporting that the project, which was being produced by Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company Apian Way, is dead.
Up and coming director Ruairi Robinson, who earned an Oscar nomination for his short film Fifty Percent Grey, was attached to helm but according to Bd, who confirmed the news with two separate sources, he as now left the project.
Each feature was to be based on three of the books in Otomo's series. The story takes place in New Manhattan, a metropolis that was rebuilt after being destroyed 31 years earlier. Gary Whitta
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