Live-Action Akira Movie is Dead as a Doornail!

"I'm relieved and disappointed at the same time. I imagined one of my favorite movies getting crucified, but was also happy to see anime get some Hollywood lovin'"

Exactly how i feel.

Ditto.

Although now that I know that they had planned to let a first-time director make this, I feel more relieved than anything. There's only one reason why a studio would permit a first-time director to helm something this immense: because a director without experience is a director without leverage and the studio would therefor retain ultimate control over the project.

I am shocked as this was the first film that made me a fan of the anime/manga world, cause they were planning it from the start at around 2003 but then problems came and now this has to turn up.

If it did get made then it would have been an anime fan's dream, but you know Hollywood they just might give it to McG or to any other director (not to the one's mentioned in the above column) and turn it into a DBZ Evolution Disaster.

i can't imagine seeing the last half hour where it goes proper nuts in live action

I agree, it would have cool to see it made, but I am relieved as it would never have been done justice.

There is a God.

How well can an animation of that calibre translate to real life action?

they probably would have ruined it anyway

I really wish this project would be laid to rest for good before the Wachowski brothers get a hold of it and jack off in our eyes all over again a la Speed Racer. Stop ruining the best shit from our childhood, Hollywood.

i am happy today... this is wonderful news.

they would have made a mess of it, now hopefully the same news comes for ghost in the shells live action.

Hollywood is out of ideas and only ruins new material... look at the ring, the grudge and almost every other film they have remade from foreign sources... its like a continual looping train wreck.

I'm not sorry about this, Akira was great as a manga film, I am not so sure it would have survived the Hollywood treatment and remained so. Too many remakes of sub-par quality are trying to cash in on their superior originals.

its better left the way it is. they are still figuring out how to murder cowboy beebop... big frown!

Don't worry everyone, Keanu is still playing Spike in the American Cowboy Bebop live action movie.

I bet they wanted Shia LeDouf for a major role, too.

Good news all around! No bad acting, no lousy plot killing.

The original animated version stands.

From what I heard about the changes they were going to make this is for the best.

better canned than sodomized.

they should have gone with my brilliant suggestion of casting Zac Efron, Tracy Morgan, the cast of twilight and Dane cook for the humor of course.

Glad to see it die, hollywood would have seriously screwed this story up. New Manhatten? cmon....

can't decide if I want to cry or cheer as this is one of my favourite movies of all time. I was scared to death at the remake being a bastardization.

thank jesus they aren't going to ruin another awesome movie.

Wow... I just started reading Akira after seeing so many good things about it here and it is a damn good manga.... I'll have to see the animation or what not but this is a damn good thing they did not try to make it a live action...

Animation is animation for a reason('xept king of the hill).
Im not saying that animation or live action determines whether something is bad or good but ithey will never the same at all.
You see the live action Aqua Teen Hunger Force?

"I'm relieved and disappointed at the same time."

I could not have said it better myself