After Chronicle there really feels like there’s no reason to make a feature film version of Akira, although I would love to see a real version of Kaneda and Tetsuo realized.
Bloody Disgusting broke the news on a Akira features years and years ago, and yet it still hasn’t come into fruition. In fact, it’s deader than ever.
Orphan and House of Wax‘s Jaume Collet-Serra was to direct, and tells Collider the project is dead in the water.
“No, no. There’s nothing,” he tells the site when asked about progress. After a lengthy explanation of his need for a vacation, he says it’s up to the studio to progress Akira. “It’s a Warner Bros. question.”
The last update came in July 2014 when it was announced that Dante Harper, the first writer on Edge of Tomorrow, who also penned the latest draft of The Last Witch Hunter, was currently working with Warner Bros, Appian Way, Mad Chance and director Jaume Collet-Serra on Akira. Clearly, this didn’t go as planned.
The new Akira is set in New Manhattan where the leader of a biker gang must save his friend, discovered with potentially destructive psychokinetic abilities, from government medical experiments.
There’s always this amazing fan film.
