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Christopher Nolan reportedly producing an Akira Trilogy for Warner Bros.
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Hyperborean
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If Scarlett is the lead in Ghost in the Shell and a white male is the lead in Akira, I think the Japanese will be pretty annoyed.
I don't know. He might have to get creative in how he handles the stuff. He also might just say fuck it and go the rated R route. He has enough clout that they might agree to roll the dice.
Mad Max didn't cost $130M initially, the price ramped up due to delays. It wasn't really a financial win for Warner either, even if it likely broke even. Akira would most definitely cost more to produce as well.
Discotheque
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If this happens then I bet JGL is a lock for one of the roles
That's why I think he could do it well if he really committed to it. More than likely he'd adapt it to something completely different entirely, which I'd be fine with tbh. It wouldn't be Akira though.
It's a good and unique 6 volume sci-fi dystopian sort of Manga that became a groundbreaking tentpole of anime with it's adaptation (directed by the Manga's writer).
Akira is the name of a major character- saying anymore would spoil it though; really suggest watching or reading it (and avoiding too many online descriptors).
It's excellent as a film, and excellent as an anime if you want a more complete tale.
As for the Nolan hate....don't get that either. Personally don't think Akira can be or needs to be adapted though.
Coffee Dog
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A nolan trilogy would be so different that they shouldn't even bother using the name.
Harry Stewart
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This led me to seeing if there was a biking scene in Japan post nuclear bombs in the 1950s. And there was: http://blackcountrybiker.blogspot.ch/2011/02/1950s-vintage-japanese-motorcycles.html?m=1 . Malick would direct the fuck out of a period Japanese setting, women frolicking around in wheat, nay rice fields, contemplative narration in Japanese. Still European classical music though, Malick gonna Malick.
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Future Foundation
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If he's gonna adapt the manga, the trilogy idea works. The first movie had to distill a shit-ton of story, and though it was still amazing, there were bits that got the short end of the stick.
(Or people. I'm looking at you Kaori.)
(Or people. I'm looking at you Kaori.)
Messofanego
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David Motherfucking Cronenberg should be on top of this shit and bring him back to body horror!
HuskerDutheDu
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Yall don't like Nolan now?
Bobby Roberts
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The accumulated weight of a thousand memes has brought the man low.
Messypandas
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Worst director of all time
lmao
Liquidsnake
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SatoAilDarko
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Akira the manga seems much more suited to a duology or four films.
The break is exactly in the middle, in between volumes 3 and 4 out of 6 total. The setting on both sides is so vastly different from each other I don't think that the transition would work in the middle of a movie.
The break is exactly in the middle, in between volumes 3 and 4 out of 6 total. The setting on both sides is so vastly different from each other I don't think that the transition would work in the middle of a movie.
That would be such a departure from anime's (wonderful) soundtrack.
freeofgreed
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Eh. I love Nolan but no. I'd rather him do something original. That and I have no faith that they'll do either the anime or the manga justice. Plus I'm not looking forward to inevitable white washing.
Yeah ok.
Yeah ok.
Doctor Decimate
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Quick! Somebody post that one Dark Knight Rises gif with the fighting the slipping and all that!
He isn't going to do a 1 to 1 adaptation.
HuskerDutheDu
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I knew memes were bad news. Time to end memes.
Mushroomer25
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This would be a pretty massive gamble for WB. No Manga/anime adaption had done particularly well in the US, and the core fanbase will effectively boycott the film of it isn't a direct translation (turning off most of the mainstream US).
But I suppose if there's any name with enough clout to get it made, it's Nolan.
But I suppose if there's any name with enough clout to get it made, it's Nolan.
Messypandas
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Circa 1999' I agree.
Lets kickstart a time machine to go back to 99 and have Nolan and Wachowskis make the movie.
Akira is so cool, I don't even have to explain, but is there a story and characters in there that demands it be produced as a live action, Westerner filled epic?
Most of its appeal in both anime and Manga form was in compelling and at the time - very new visuals. It suffers an ironic fate though in that it has been so mimicked that it would look old again.
Most of its appeal in both anime and Manga form was in compelling and at the time - very new visuals. It suffers an ironic fate though in that it has been so mimicked that it would look old again.
fierrotlepou
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This will be great.
I honestly think there is no gamble IF he is the director. People would come in masses to see not Akira, but the last Nolan movie. His name is much bigger than the manga.
If he only produces, well, I don't know.
Dice//
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BWAAAAAAARRRGGHHH
Bobby Roberts
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Now, Warners IS a studio willing to give earners a LOT of rope. The Wachowskis made them tons in 99, and that string only just finally played out this year with Jupiter Ascending.
Nolan's never stopped earning for them. The question is whether he's willing to really spend that capital to say "I want an Akira trilogy. And it's going to be set in Japan. And it's going to be rated R."
Because if any studio is going to roll with that, I'd imagine it's WB. Especially if it's Nolan asking.
Nolan's never stopped earning for them. The question is whether he's willing to really spend that capital to say "I want an Akira trilogy. And it's going to be set in Japan. And it's going to be rated R."
Because if any studio is going to roll with that, I'd imagine it's WB. Especially if it's Nolan asking.
JadedWriter
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I wonder who Cillian Murphy will play?
This is REQUIRED viewing for anyone in this thread. It just never gets old.
If his past work is anything to go by, I expect a lot of British people
I highly doubt it'll take place in Japan. Nolan will be doing his own spin and it makes much more sense for him on a writing and production level to do the setting as Neo-New York.
A lot of Akira is social criticism and religious elements. Might as well do it as a Western take rather than emulating the Asian one.
Mushroomer25
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Still, Nolan's name only takes this so far. Assuming this is the unnamed July 2017 film, that means WB is betting on a blockbuster level return. If he properly adapts Akira, that essentially bars the film from having any major US star in the central cast.
So either WB assumes that a massive audience will come out based alone on Nolan & Akira name recognition, or the film is adapted for a US setting.
There is absolutely no chance, if the movies are made, that they are both set in Japan and rated R. It's just not gonna happen.
I'm thinking they will change the title to "Stuart" or something along those lines lol
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