Akira Following up on the apparent death reports of the live-action Akira project, executive producer Andrew Lazar confirmed that Warner Bros. has made the adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo’s epic dystopian saga a priority when speaking to if Magazine during Comic-Con International this past weekend. He also confirmed that the studio was working on a script, but wasn’t aiming for a release before 2011, which makes sense given the prior timeframes that were previously reported were much too accelerated for such a large scale production.
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Akira (アキラ?) is a 1988 anime film co-written and directed by Katsuhiro Otomo based on his hit manga. The film is set in a futuristic and post-war city, Neo-Tokyo, in 2019. While most of the character designs and basic settings were adapted from the original 2,182-page manga epic, the restructured plot of the movie differs considerably from the print version, pruning much of the last half of the manga.
