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

Effectively, it’s occurred. After 20 years of shuffling creative teams and growth hell, Warner Bros. lastly referred to as it and received’t remake Akira.

However issues aren’t ending there, in response to 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 response to 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 Could 2021. However after Waititi was locked in for Thor: Love & Thunder and different initiatives, the remake obtained 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’s, who’ll be the one to convey it to the lots, and the way will that movie change the supply for a brand new viewers that most likely 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 collection from Gundam studio Sunrise, assuming that ever leaves growth hell.

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