Exclusive: A look at the live action AKIRA remake - AKIRA PART 1! (flag)

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Akira remake script reviewed
Filmstalker — ... , however it's just a location. When you read the rest of the script review all you'll see that the story is exactly the same as before, it doesn't really seem that there's anything different. So what does this remake promise to bring us that's different? Well there's the location change, it's live action, and...well...and...that seems to be about it really. You can read the first part of the script review over at Latino Review through ...

Leonardo DiCaprio Won't Star in Either Akira or Ninja Scroll
FirstShowing.net — ... DiCaprio told MTV that "we're waiting for the final draft of the script [for Akira]," which showed up on El Mayimbe's radar not too long ago. He continues, "I'm a big fan of Japanese anime - that and another project called Ninja Scroll we're trying to get developed and made into a movie, and I know there a lot of loyal fans out there of the project and die-hard fans, so we're going to try to do the best job we possibly can and we're not going to make the movie until the script is in the right shape." Thank goodness for that! ...

AICN Anime - An 8th Anniversary Column with Pluto, Astro Boy, Moribito, Mysterious Cities of Gold and More
Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. — ... * Latino Review offers an Akira script review The story takes place in a burgeoning new metropolis of the future, several years after a cataclysmic event destroyed the old city that once stood in its place. Unbeknownst to most of the populace, the real cause of the event was a small boy with incredible psychic powers, part of a top secret government program attempting to harness such so called “Espers” as weapons. The project is deemed too dangerous, and the young boy – AKIRA – is put in cryogenic stasis in a secret underground facility to prevent such a disaster from ever ...