Akira Live-Action Articles

[MABFanForLife]

One of the sites I visit recently had a few articles out on the new live-action Akira remake that's set to go into production shortly. I've never seen Akira, but I understand the author's frustration and thought it would be interesting to see what any Akira fans in here might have to say.

http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-urgent-questions-about-live-action-akira-remake/

http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-actual-live-action-akira-script-worse-than-you-think/

If Hollywood is screwing this up as bad as the author claims, it almost makes me afraid of what might happen if they make a live-action Evangelion movie.

[Nero D. Ace]

Believe me, from what i've been hearing, they're gonna badly f*** it up.

Akira is a classic in anime history. Even though they did a horrible job with Dragon Ball, i was ready to move past it but now they're going after Akira and doing the same thing with it.

What are the things wrong with it? Here they are:-

1) They changed the location! No, it's not gonna happen in Tokyo cuz New York is the greatest frigging city in the world! The city of Tokyo plays a vital part in the story and they've already made such a huge change to the original story which has completely made me believe that this will have an "original plot"

2) Tesuya to Travis. The same question i asked when they made DB : Evolution : WHY DO YOU HAVE TO DO A COMPLETE RACE CHANGE!? I don't think i could stand it if the role went to that gay vampire from Twilight.

3) MAJOR Character changes. So, instead of being teenagers, Kaneda and "Travis" are thirty something year old men now. Why Hollywood feels that young teenagers can't be heroes without being an ass like Shai LeBouf is beyond me. They did it in DB : Evolution and now they've done it again. The whole appeal of certain anime is watching kids in the "Shounen" age do feats that middle-aged men could never think of doing.

Why they can't stick with making stereotypical movies about stereotypical superheroes is beyond me.

Instead, they have to take a really good script that deals with themes like corruption, growth as a person and as a human race and several explosions to indicate the fragility of human life and turn it into a 1.5 hour Shoot em up.

[ookami]

Whoa, wait...a live action of Akira, are you flippin' serious?? Aww man, wasn't it bad enough doing it with Dragonball and Avatar (altho I didn't see that one). Let 'em do the Marvel comics all they want, rewriting half of the character histories, but please, they need to leave a classic like Akira alone.