Akira: Classic Or Dud?

most amazing internet rumour:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/nov/08/zac-efron-akira-shotaro-kaneda

This reminds me of the little news-in-briefs you'd get in nerdy magazines of the late 80s and early 90s: Richard Gere to play Blue Beetle! Frank Miller to script new Michael Elphick drama... etc

oh no...

akira was def the first anime i saw. at some point in the mid 90s me and other teenage friends became very aware of it somehow. is that when it started showing on cable? we totally fetishized it for the gore. ninja scroll too.

i thought i read somewhere dicaprio or frodo baggins had secured the rights to make this a year ago?

are you thinking about Tobey MacGuire's Robotech thing?

No, DiCaprio's been dying to make this for years now.

lawl elf quest. i still have my record of lodoss and neon genesis evangelion vhs tapes i used to buy one every two weeks w/my allowance then dvd hit ;_;

LOL! This describes my experience as well, Lamp!

Haha, I have a bunch of old anime VHS tapes lying in the shelf too: Akira, Ninja Scroll, Wicked City, Wings of Honneamise (awesome movie, this one), Battle Angel Alita, Dragon Half (funny shit) Patlabor, Ghost in the Shell, etc etc. I don't know why I haven't thrown them away, I haven't owned a video player nor a TV set for years.

First Efron now . . . Franco?

http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/news/a303460/franco-in-talks-for-live-action-akira.html

Otomo doing new stuff: https://variety.com/2019/film/asia/anime-japan-otomo-katsuhiro-orbital-era-film-akira-1203259908/

Ok I am finally going to read Domu this weekend