Akira - The hollywood remake gets greenlit..
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http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Akira-Remake-Gets-Greenlight-Garrett-Hedlund-Frontrunner-Lead-Role-27425.html
Variety has learned that Warner Bros. has given the greenlight to the live-action remake of Akira. The project will move forward with a budget of $90 million and will try to begin production early next year. The new movie will move the setting from futuristic Tokyo to a futuristic Manhattan, where the leader of a biker gang tries to save his friend with psychokinetic powers from the government. Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Davisson Killoran, Andrew Lazar and Katsuhiro Otomo, who directed the original film, will serve as producers and Steve Kloves, best known for his work on the Harry Potter franchise, wrote the script. Furthermore, the site has also learned that Garrett Hedlund - who audiences saw riding enhanced motorcycles in last year's Tron Legacy - is a favorite to take the lead role of Kaneda.
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and in other news hollywood also thinks another die hard movie is a good idea...
Variety has learned that Warner Bros. has given the greenlight to the live-action remake of Akira. The project will move forward with a budget of $90 million and will try to begin production early next year. The new movie will move the setting from futuristic Tokyo to a futuristic Manhattan, where the leader of a biker gang tries to save his friend with psychokinetic powers from the government. Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Davisson Killoran, Andrew Lazar and Katsuhiro Otomo, who directed the original film, will serve as producers and Steve Kloves, best known for his work on the Harry Potter franchise, wrote the script. Furthermore, the site has also learned that Garrett Hedlund - who audiences saw riding enhanced motorcycles in last year's Tron Legacy - is a favorite to take the lead role of Kaneda.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
and in other news hollywood also thinks another die hard movie is a good idea...
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"Steve Kloves, best known for his work on the Harry Potter franchise, wrote the script"
Tetsuo: "Armus Mechanico!"... Kaneda "Rechargium laserio". Oh for pete's sake.
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not far off
not funny... and..
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and if you do it will make the hollywood version that much worse...
agreed..but the movie is an awesome feast for the eyes
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I heard a rumour that on the original script for this shitty American remake, Tetsuo's name is changed to Travis. And the location is in New York..but since the US is broke Japan bought it and put Neo Tokyo there. So Travis and Kaneda..just hangin out in New York being punx.
What the fuck.
You're damn right another Die Hard movie is a good idea. :]
could be a good way to refresh the creative controls in movie industry if they have more publicity and budget.
I did but I couldnt understand that either. Although I did only read up to book 3.
There's no way it's going to be any good, especially with only 90mil, with inflation thats probably more like 50mil.
lmao..... :poly122:
I hope the movie makes around $40. Why would they butcher Akira.... WHY!?!??! At least the original can stay as it was.....
It'll happen just as soon as movies like the 2010 Karate Kid remake stop making $360 million worldwide. You and I may not like what Hollywood is putting out, but the rest of the planet is eating it up.
Lmfao, that's exactly what I was thinking.
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Habboi: dont even type it. Bebop is sacred.
thats both depressing and extremely funny at the same time..
And don't forget about the animated series, and 'free-to-play' MMO.
I fully agree. The movie starts off well but since the manga wasn't finished at the time the movie just gets weird when it tries to finish what's already been developed in the manga. I really hope the american team follows the manga and not the movie. The movie is good but the manga is amazing. Hell, Akira isn't even present in the movie.
I'm curious to why people are so upset over this news though? The original will remain the way it is, so will the manga. Are you worried that the title will be associated with this Hollywood movie instead?
We're upset because it will be a piece of trash. Setting in America and making everyone white isn't a small change.
The entire point of the story is riffing off of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and how Japan has dealt with these horrible things. Not only that, but Japan has actually has street punk biker gangs. America's gang culture is very very different. Of course you might want it to be like the manga, but then, what part does the American Empire play? A Japanese empire isn't believable at all. And changing the age of the characters to mid 20's? The juvenile nature of the protagonists is one of their biggest character points.
I'm upset because I don't want a great thing tarnished. I don't want to see Boys in the Hood performed on Broadway with blackface. I don't want to see a Fifth Element remake that takes out the sci-fi aspects. And I certainly don't want to see this piece of shit.
You guys are old and lame.
Steal all the good ideas and make some other crap a-la matrix~
Those are all fair points and I agree with you. But it's not technically being tarnished, it's just another remake(or whatever you want to call this). I didn't like the new Karate kid because of various reasons, mostly because it didn't need a remake. This does however not make me mad at it as the original one is still available.
I'm not really sure if Hollywood would be willing to have the movie set in Japan though, they always go too far in thinking that the audience would need to relate to all the characters by them being from the same nation(Let the right one in, Nikita and more), even if it's set in a future very unlike ours. They will probably replace the american empire with a russian empire or some other clich
Maybe this will teach em?
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Do you really feel that way, that you don't like the originals as much because of those? I haven't seen either of those films so I find it pretty easy to ignore them.
I came here to ask pretty much the same thing Goraaz did. For me, they can make as many crappy remakes as they want and it doesn't really affect how much I enjoy the original. I guess it's just a difference of perspective.
So... I guess I am neither for or against this. They might as well give it a shot in the off chance it becomes decent in its own right, although unlikely.
I heard they were all steaming piles of primordial shit, not surprised, this movie will be too, and since I'm never going to watch it, my opinion will stay that way.
Some people say I'm running away, I call it effectively saving myself from an aneurysm.
A Brand can be tarnished when a company releases shitty products or does shitty things. That's just marketing 101.
Or am I thinking of Beebop.