Akira (2009)
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- moldero
please please please don't fuck this one up like you do most of the titles you get a hold of, you Hollywood assholes.
- honest0
Somebody tell me of a successful live-action-movie-made-from-anim... please.
- jfletcher0
I think Leo will be fine, I worry about Joseph Gordon-Levitt. I love and own the anime... I worry this will be trash, but I really hope not.
- ukit0
I don't mind Leo in some films...but it's a bit unconvincing that they couldn't find a single Asian guy to fill that role. I mean, the story takes place in Tokyo FFS!
- Click on jaylarson's link. Try "New Manhatten"locustsloth
- Nmaes will probably be changed too. My guesses:
Kanada = Keith
Tetsuo = Teddy (Theodore)locustsloth - what...that makes no sense...considering it's still called "Akira." FAIL!ukit
- agreed. but if it is taken as a stand-alone product, maybe it won't be so badjaylarson
- armsbottomer0
turning akira into a live action film sounds like a recipe for disaster. americanizing it alone is enough to fuck it up. but if it must be done, i think samuel l. jackson would make a good colonel shikishima
- You can really find a role for him in pretty much every filmukit
- truearmsbottomer
- "It's the one that says Bad Motherfucker on it."ukit
- ukit0
I think Americanizing it is a recipe for FAIL. Half the appeal of the original were the awesome depictions of a future Japan.
It's also an insult to Americans to think they couldn't wrap their heads around a film with Asian actors. Lame.
- Georges0
"please please please don't fuck this one up like you do most of the titles you get a hold of, you Hollywood assholes."
I couldn't agree more with you on this.
they will fail akira!!
- Mojo0
leonardo is KANEDA?? wow.
man, that should be intersting - wonder how they will do the end scenes..
- Meeklo0
Hollywood doesn't care what you think. they never did..
They just want you in line, dressed as one of the characters while you wait to give them $8 to watch in the the theaters.The same machine that is trasnforming about 2.5 comic book characters into movies per year, is running out of superheros, it's time to exploit anime.
- $8?? Where are you going? It's more like $12 and up!duckofrubber
- Meeklo0
- dicaprio is generally a pussy. even in his hardest roll he has whinny bitch moments. kaneda was always hard.sofakingzero
- that's what she said.scottON
- sofakingzero0
I think it should be with asian actors...
whats next Ninja Scroll with Tom Cruise....
oh wait...
- armsbottomer0
its been rumored that the wachowski brothers are currently filming a live action remake of "ninja scroll". also dreamworks recently licensed the rights to film a live action version of "ghost in the shell".
- Iggyboo0
theirs just no way this isn't going to get screwd up
- Helvetica0
This is Ruairi's oscar winning short. Groundbreaking it ain't, but it's clever, and it's made with love and artistry, at the time by a guy in his bedroom, with no resources. I'd rather he get the chance to pour his heart and soul into it than give it to Bruckheimer or the like. Good luck Ruairi.
- Souless character design, wouldn't look out of place on an insurance advertmodern
- white environment is the biggest lazy copout in 3Dmodern
- for it's time this was pretty good.ornj
- although he didn't win for it just got a nomination.
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- modern0
Fuck off Hollywood seriously, couldn't care less when they remake films that were already terrible (Pulse FFS, terrible film why even bother) but to go and remake classics that can't possibly be given the care they deserve like Akira and I hear an Evangelion remake is on the cards with that smug cunt harry potter girl.
And fuck off Americans for not being able to understand anything without American actors being all American in it, just look at those fucking war films where they replaced actual real people with history with pissing Americans
- I agree. its total shit.
Evangelion can never be made to live film... well not with the standards we have today. people wouldn't get it.sofakingzero - wouldn't get itsofakingzero
- I agree. its total shit.
- moprints0
Stay away - please leave this film alone.