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‘Akira’ Being Resurrected With ‘Fast and Furious’ Director Justin Lin?
Justin Lin makes awesome movies, most notable many of the Fast and Furious films, such as The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift through Fast & Furious 6. He’s even behind this summer’s Star Trek Beyond, which looks infinitely better than its predecessors.
What’s next for him? Possibly the long-gestured adaptation of Akira, according to the MTMP Podcast, who says Warner Bros. is “courting” the filmmaker.
While nothing is confirmed, this would be quite the revival for the franchise that’s been in development hell since 2002.
The last we heard was last September when it was being reported that Christopher Nolan (Batman Begins, Inception) had been rumored to be involved in the project that’s being handled by Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company, Appian Way, and the script being written by Marco J. Ramirez (“Sons of Anarchy”).
Akira was originally a six-volume manga written by Katsuhiro Otomo, so a trilogy would really allow the movies to dive into the stories rather than try to squeeze everything into one film.
In the Manga, “A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psionic psychopath that only two kids and a group of psionics can stop.”
Lin’s ability to direct action set pieces on the level of the Fast and Furious films make him a phenomenal fit for the Akira adaptation, which once had Joseph Gordon-Levitt attached to star as Tetsuo.
It was announced two weeks ago that Paramount is resurrecting the Scary Movie spoof franchise with a brand new reboot movie, which will likely arrive in theaters next year.
The new movie, a joint venture between Paramount and Miramax that will technically be the sixth installment in the franchise, is expected to go into production this coming Fall.
We don’t yet know who will be writing, directing or starring in the Scary Movie reboot, but two actors in particular have already expressed an interest in joining the franchise.
The first is Melissa Barrera, who can currently be seen in theaters in Radio Silence’s bloody horror movie Abigail. Barrera is of course also the star of Scream and Scream VI, which kind of makes her a perfect candidate to lampoon herself in a Scary Movie reboot.
“I always loved those movies,” Melissa Barrera tells the website Inverse. “When I saw it announced, I was like, ‘Oh, that would be fun.’ That would be so fun to do.”
The actress adds, “They have the iconic cast that did it, so we’ll see what goes on with that. I’m just excited to see a new one.”
In a tweet posted last night, Bailee Madison (The Strangers: Prey at Night, the upcoming “Pretty Little Liars: Summer School”) also threw her hat in the running.
Madison tweets, “Random but scary movie 6 hit me up cause I just feel like we’d have fun okay bye.” Your move, Paramount. And make sure you call Anna Faris and Regina Hall too.
Directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans, the first Scary Movie was released in 2000, just four years after Wes Craven reinvigorated the horror genre with his meta slasher masterpiece, Scream.
The film parodied horror movies of the time including Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and The Blair Witch Project, and the horror-comedy spoof scared up $278 million at the worldwide box office. The success of that first Scary Movie paved the way for an entire franchise of horror spoofs, five of them in total released between 2000 and 2013.
Bailee Madison in “The Strangers: Prey at Night’
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