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Taika Waititi has spoken about his involvement with the alive activeness version ofAkira – and how he would go about conform the write up . TheAkiraanime was conform from a cyberpunk manga series of the same name by Katsuhiro Otomo - who also wrote and direct the film . The gum anime is justifiedly considered a groundbreaking piece of work and helped generalize anime in the West .
Since 2002 , Warner Bros. has mounted several attempts at making a bouncy actionAkira , with various actors , directors and writer being attached . filmmaker such as George Miller , Stephen Norrington , Jaume Collet - Serra and – most recently – Jordan Peelehave been approach or work on unlike translation , which have crop from an epical , two - part adaptation , to a more monetary value - effective version thatCollet - Serradeveloped . Actors ranging from Brad Pitt , Garrett Hedlund , Kristen Stewart andGary Oldmanhave been offered roles over the years too .
Taika Waititiis the late director to be approached and he offered some thoughts on how he would adapt it , during his interview withScreen RantforThor : Ragnarok . Specifically , he ’d adapt theAkirabooks instead of remaking the anime , which had to greatly condense the story to meet into a two - hr runtime :
SR : Talking about future things , rumour has it that you could be concerned in doing Akira .
Taika Waititi : Yeah yeah yeah . We ’ve been let the cat out of the bag to them a niggling mo . I do n’t know , it ’s sort of other days really I ’m just kind of entertaining that conversation because I ’ve been a huge fan of that property for a long time .
SR : Me too .
Taika Waititi : I always felt like it was something that could do with a unique take . But , I do n’t think the world needs a remake of the anime , I intend for me it would be , if there ’s any real possibility for doing it , I would really just want to look at an adaptation of the books in a new mode .
It appears a big proceeds with the development of the springy - actionAkirais concern over accusations of whitewashing since the manga and anime are basically Nipponese . Various scripts have judge to transplant the story to a setting that would take into account a mixture of Asiatic and westerly player , include a version fromRogue Onewriter Gary Whitta that was go under in a Japanese owned rendering of New York dubbed Neo - Manhattan . For Waititi , there ’s only one mode to approach the exit of casting . As he toldIGN :
" Yeah . Actually Asiatic teen would be the way to do it for me and probably no , not , like no name , I mean sort of unfound , untapped talent . Yeah , I ’d probably want to take it a fleck back more towards the Word . "
For now , the director seems to be keep his choice open regarding the film , and sinceThor : Ragnaroklooks set to be a huge hitting , he ’ll have no shortage of vocation options . Live activity gum anime is also a tricksy genre to tackle , and it has n’t fare well in late time . BothDeath NoteandGhost in the Shellreceived mixed reviews from buff and critic , with the latter movie prove to be a box - authority bomb calorimeter despite the mavin power of Scarlett Johansson . That ’s saying nothing about past attempts likeThe Fist Of The North Star , The Last AirbenderandDragonball : Evolutioneither .
TheAkiraremake is a project that seems for good trapped in development hell , but if any filmmaker could undertake it – and do a heavy caper – then it would be Taika Waititi . Time will secernate if the task moves forward this metre , but given the fate of previous attempts atAkira , it ’s best not to get any hopes up just yet .
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