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filmjunk.com - 9/9/2009

Live Action Akira Movie Comes Back from the Dead

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We heard reports a couple of months ago that the live action adaptation of the seminal anime flick Akira had lost its director and essentially been shelved, which was no doubt seen by some as a fortunate turn of events. If you were hoping this project would stay dead, however, prepare to be ...

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collider.com - 9/8/2009

Exclusive AKIRA Movie Update

— collider.com — Early last year, Variety reported Warner Bros. was hard at work trying to adapt the ridiculously popular anime “Akira” into two live-action feature films. Rumors were everywhere that Leonardo DiCaprio and Joseph Gordon Levitt were ... (more) Exclusive AKIRA Movie Update

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filmshaft.com - 9/8/2009

Iron Man Screenwriters Working On Akira

— filmshaft.com — The Akira project isn’t dead after all. Back in June of this year fanboys around the world were grieving the loss of Warner Bros. live action Akira adaptation, based on the hugely popular Manga series. 15th June 2009 was the day it was confirmed that director Ruairi Robinson had ... (more) Iron Man Screenwriters Working On Akira

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slashfilm.com - 9/8/2009

Children of Men Screenwriters Are Developing Live-Action Akira Movie

— slashfilm.com — Warner Bros’ live-action adaptation of Akira is not dead afterall. Collider has confirmed that Children of Men and Iron Man screenwriters Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby are hard at work on the project. The screenplay is set in a ... (more) Children of Men Screenwriters Are Developing Live-Action ...

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Live Action Akira is Back On!
The Movie Blog — ... feature Akira? Well fanboys released a collective sigh of relief when they found the adpatation of their beloved film was shelved. It was going to be transplanted to an American adaptation in a postapocalyptic Manhattan instead of Neo Tokyo, and then the project stalled out and disappeared. Well get ready to inhale again. It seems that DiCaprio and Warner Brothers never stopped working on it and are eagerly awaiting the next script by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby. FilmJunk says: Fergus and Ostby have some serious geek ...