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Top 10 Anime Films of All Time
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Akira
- Theatrical - Wide 1989-12-25
- Cast Mitsuo Iwata Nozomu Sasaki Mami Koyama Tesshô Genda Hiroshi Ôtake
- Directed by Katsuhiro Ôtomo
- Written by Izô Hashimoto Katsuhiro Ôtomo
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Kaneda is a bike gang leader whose close friend Tetsuo gets involved in a government secret project known as Akira. On his way to save Tetsuo, Kaneda runs into a group of anti-government activists, greedy politicians, irresponsible scientists and a powerful... See more military leader. The confrontation sparks off Tetsuo’s supernatural power leading to bloody death, a coup attempt and the final battle in Tokyo Olympiad where Akira’s secrets were buried 30 years ago.
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Jaume Collet-Serra says the Akira movie will differ from the manga and anime
The American version of seminal manga/anime AKIRA has been in development for years with everyone from Leonardo DiCaprio, Stephen Norrington, Allen and Albert Hughes, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zac Efron, Morgan Freeman, James Franco, Keanu Reeves, Keira Knightley, and Gary Oldman attached...
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Live action Akira movie back on with Jaume Collet-Serra returning to helm
Posted 13 years ago
The big-budget, live action version of AKIRA has stalled more often than my old motorcycle, but that hasn't stopped Warner Bros. from trying to get it going again and again. Now Variety is reporting that HOUSE OF WAX and ORPHAN...
Guess who’s back for the Akira remake? Director Jaume Collet-Serra!
Posted 13 years ago
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Any Akira fans out there who want to see an opening scene storyboard for the live-action movie we almost had?
Posted 14 years ago
A live-action adaptation of AKIRA has never quite managed to come to pass – Warner Bros might yet find a way to make it happen, but right now the proverbial fish is dead in the fallout-filled water. Which is just...
Tron Legacy star to sign on to Akira?
Posted 14 years ago
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Keanu Reeves the latest to line up for live-action Akira
Posted 15 years ago
AKIRA has had many suitors over the months and years the project has been in the works, ranging from Leonardo DiCaprio to Ryan Gosling to Brad Pitt, but all of them passed it by as the film floundered to find...
A beautiful new Akira poster most of us will never own
Posted 15 years ago
One of my favorite films is Katsuhiro Otomo’s 1989 animated epic AKIRA. I still remember the clerk at the video store recommending it to me when I was a young teen, bringing it home and falling almost instantly in love....
Rumor du jour: Zac Efron in talks for Akira?
Posted 15 years ago
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