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  1. 10-May-2011 #31
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    Quote Originally Posted by Yojimbo View Post
    "Whoa, like what's up with Tetsuo, dude?"
    That made me laugh! Out loud!

    Neo-Manhattan?! I... This is so much bollocks... So instead of kind of a modern Blade Runner, with, y'know, Akira going on... It's gonna be New York?! Again?! Isn't it enough that almost half of American movies take place there, anyway?! I mean, shoot, man... It's gonna be an utter facepalm cluster-faulk...
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  2. 10-May-2011 #32
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    http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-urgent...-akira-remake/


    PG-13 of course!

    The more I learn about this, the more antacid I have to take. They are changing "Tetsuo" to "Travis" to match the race change of the leads?

    Since they are anglicizing everything about the movie why not also change the name of the film from "Akira" to "Alfalfa" or "Amos"

    Douchebags.
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    Quick! Somebody make a picture of the famous "Kaneda walking to his cycle" Poster image and have his hair sticking up!
    Y'know... Like Alfalfa from Little Rascals...
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    I remember watching Akira for the first time back in...oh...I guess it would have been '89 or '90 on VHS. Very good stuff, especially for an over-hyped genre. This sounds horrible, though.

    This reminds of something that outraged some of the kiddies a few years back:


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    To be fair, there was no way to do a live action Dragonball movie and make it true to the source material. How were they going to fit ten episodes worth of screaming and flashbacks every single time a kamehameha wave was used, not to mention the entire season's worth of episodes that always took place between starting the Spirit Bomb and actually throwing the thing?

    At least in Akira they can...um... Okay, so I don't really see a whole lot of positives here, especially since I wasn't a huge fan of the source material to begin with.
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    Quote Originally Posted by AcesandEights View Post
    Very good stuff, especially for an over-hyped genre.
    What genre, post-Apocalyptic sci-fi action drama? Yeah, that stuff is way over-hyped, son!

    *Ahem* Anime is no more a genre than cartoons from America are. I mean, really, any live-action genre you can think of has been done in some form or other in anime; some to death. Anyway... I'm all things to all people.
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    Is production collapsing? http://www.aintitcool.com/node/49693
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mitchified View Post
    To be fair, there was no way to do a live action Dragonball movie and make it true to the source material. How were they going to fit ten episodes worth of screaming and flashbacks every single time a kamehameha wave was used, not to mention the entire season's worth of episodes that always took place between starting the Spirit Bomb and actually throwing the thing?

    Heys! Don't lump Dragonball in with Dragonball Z. Yeah, Dragonball Z was all of that(well, the later episodes anyway). But, Dragonball was quality!
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    The Doc is right! Young Goku being an ignorant little Mowgli is the best!! Back when the series was accessible to young children, and still fun to watch. And lacked the zed. But yeah, sometimes I just don't like you, Mitchy. I'm sorry, but it's true. (still bitter about losing the high score position in space invaders)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil View Post
    Is production collapsing? http://www.aintitcool.com/node/49693
    My fingers are crossed that it collapses. I just don't want to see it go live-action.

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    Director found - http://www.aintitcool.com/node/50389
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    Cast being talked about - http://www.aintitcool.com/node/51971

    Twitch Film are reporting that Kristen Stewart has been offered the female lead role of Kei in Jaume Collet-Serra's live-action version of Katsuhiro Otomo's manga masterpiece AKIRA. She would potentially play opposite TRON LEGACY's Garrett Hedlund, who's been offered the part of Kaneda. Gary Oldman and Helena Bonham-Carter are also reportedly in talks to appear in the film.
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    Production stopped - http://www.aintitcool.com/node/52505

    Warner Brothers is shutting down production of AKIRA at this time, according to the Hollywood Reporter. With Jaume Collet-Serra at the helm, it looks like he just couldn't make the movie at $90 million. Sources say it's budgetary concerns, with the studio trying to bring it down to $70 million, and at least one source says it's the script, by Steve Kloves, that just isn't ready.
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