Category: Cinema

Some months ago we already knew that a live-action movie based on the manga film Akira was being made. On that time I said: “at least let’s hope it’s not as bad as the Hollywood adaptation of Dragon Ball…”. According to the latests news it seems that the movie is not going to be very faithful to the original movie (and manga), the main actor will be James Franco (in the original movie Kaneda is Japanese) and what is much worse the movie will be set in Manhattan, not in Neo Tokyo!!! Akira in Manhattan is not Akira!

The project to make a live-action Akira movie is progressing well. The director will be Albert Hugh (one of his last movies was The Book of Eli) and the screenwriter will be Albert Torres. The movie will be based on the first three volumes of the manga, and in the future maybe there will be a sequel following the rest of the volumes. The truth is that I don’t have much expectations about the movie, but at least let’s hope it’s not as bad as the Hollywood adaptation of Dragon Ball…

Leonardo DiCaprio is one of the candidates to take part in the movie, although nothing has been confirmed yet.