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Live Action 'Akira' Storyboards Surface

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Though Albert Hughes (The Book of Eli) walked away from directing the Warner Bros.-helmed live action adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira manga and anime, it seems that considerable storyboarding work was done under his leadership. As we saw in Monday's release of storyboards by artist Jeffrey Errico, it turns out that the film would've featured sequences much more faithful to Otomo's work than the the film's panned, highly-Americanized plot description and casting rumors lead fans to believe were possible. Yesterday's unveiling of further storyboard art by Chris Weston (2000 AD, The Invisibles, The Twelve) cements this notion with an extended sequence that features character designs directly inspired by the original material, although characters such as Kaneda, Tetsuo, Colonel Shikishima, The Espers and numerous background characters don't explicitly appear to be of Japanese ancestry.

From Weston's official blog:
"Albert Hughes has released some of the storyboards I drew for his live-action adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo's classic graphic novel,"Akira". Here's a few of them; hopefully they reveal just how much love we had for the source material and how faithful we were going to be to it."

The creator's photorealistic style and attention to detail are clear signs of at least his devotion to the project, which will likely have fans much more curious about what's possible for the story in live action. Indeed, if the project could overcome its potentially crippling Americanization in terms of casting and plot, Weston's storyboards are an intriguing look at a visually-striking and potentially cool movie. According to Weston, the plot of the Hughes version of the film was even meant to be closer to the Akira manga than the animated feature.

With any luck Warner Bros. will tap similarly talented artists (or, you know, Weston again) to help create a more sensible version of the film with an appropriate budget and faithful script sans white bartender bros kicking it with Kristen Stewart in Neo-Manhattan.
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jett

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Those "storyboards" look nice but you are not going to bullshit me into believing the movie would've looked like that. I have no doubt it would have sucked.

.GqueB. said:
They already made Akira. It was called Chronicle and it was awesome.
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Yep.
 
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harSon

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jett said:
Those "storyboards" look nice but you are not going to bullshit me into believing the movie would've looked like that. I have no doubt it would have sucked.
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I don't see why, the Hughes brothers have a decent eye for visuals and have proven to be competent directors over the course of their careers.
 
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That looked really nice. Impressive really. I wonder if we will get anything NEAR that.


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I don't see why, the Hughes brothers have a decent eye for visuals and have proven to be competent directors over the course of their careers.
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Exactly. If you doubt the Hughes brothers, then shame... shame.
 
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Shig

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Those are the most insanely detailed, "finished" storyboard frames I've ever seen. By like a factor of a thousand.

And I've seen Geoff Darrow's Matrix ones!
 
TUROK

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I would have liked to see this be put on the big screen.

The whitewashing complaint is still stupid to me.
 
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harSon

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TUROK said:
I would have liked to see this be put on the big screen.

The whitewashing complaint is still stupid to me.
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Eh, maybe if the film were being created within a vacuum, but it's not. Akira would have been yet another example of Hollywood going out of its way to prevent diversity from becoming a possibility within its industry.
 
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Reuenthal

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Akira is all about some very good visuals, being made at a time when few of those who saw it expected animation to go that far. And having some decent storyline and characters until the film story and characters became worse in the last most incoherent part of it. I did like it overall.

I don't really think its story and characters are anything special as far as anime or films go. So I don't really care much if they adapt it or not.
 
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Reuenthal said:
Akira is all about some very good visuals, being made at a time when few of those who saw it expected animation to go that far. And having some decent storyline and characters until the film story and characters became worse in the last most incoherent part of it. I did like it overall.

I don't really think its story and characters are anything special as far as anime or films go. So I don't really care much if they adapt it or not.
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But the manga made sense and that's the source material. The manga is what they should be basing this movie on.
 
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BlackGoku03

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It's funny, I just bought the Akira Blu-Ray last week and the sound is some of the best I've ever heard since I bought my new Sony receiver with uncompressed sound. It was simply AMAZING.

I don't feel bad that I paid $40 for it.

I've bought the:
VHS
DVD
Special Edition DVD
Blu-Ray

I just don't tired of the movie. I love it. In terms of story, it falls apart near the end but the sound and visuals and the concept is so amazing, it's crazy that the live action movie will most likely be a shell or shadow of the source material (manga).
 
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ChiTownBuffalo

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Progeria kids live action. I forgot about that.

Not sure if want.
 
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Parakeetman

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The thing about Akira was the anime was just the start. They never would be able to capture the whole rest of the story where things pick up from the manga in a single movie.

Sides with Hollywoods track record of ruining IPs its a good thing that perhaps the movie may never come out.
 
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Messofanego

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.GqueB. said:
They already made Akira. It was called Chronicle and it was awesome.
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The rivalry felt so forced, stupid character motivation. There was barely any character development which is the whole point of why the rilvary of best friends in Akira is so tragic.
 
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Khezu

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Chronicle > Akira.

Both cool movies with terrible endings.
Chronicle's ending was just less bad so it wins.
 
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