| According to The Hollywood Reporter, the live-action film adaptation of Akira is being put on hold due to casting, script, and budget issues. The website reports that production offices in Vancouver are being closed and below-the-line talent and crew have been told to stop working. Producers Jennifer Kiloran Davisson and Andrew Lazar will work with director Jaume Collet-Serra over the next two weeks on the script. Insiders say the project could end up canceled if the issues cannot be resolved. Source: The Hollywood Reporter Previous related topic: Live Action Akira Greenlit |
myanimelistllcMar 5, 2016 12:07 AM
| best news this year |
 I signed my screen and now its all smeary "When you meet your God tell him to leave me alone." check out my bloghttp://corpse69.wordpress.com/ fix MAL already |
| Yay they are postponed on ruining my precious animu! |
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| What the hell is "below-the-line talent" and why does the production of an live-action anime adaptation have to resort to such questionable resources? |
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Redfoxoffire said: Sounds like fun.casting, script, and budget issues |
| レッツゴー ED イケイケゴーゴー |
| wow...this is why live action anie films DONT WORK |
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| im kind of glad this is happening. don't want another "dragon ball live action movie" |
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| it's a sign saying that they should just cancel t |
| Isn't "postpone" a more appropriate term? Not "shut down." |
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BlueCyanide said: best news this year |
DraconisMarch said: Isn't "postpone" a more appropriate term? Not "shut down." The project is postponed. The offices are shut down. |
| this is great news i read the script changes that they made to AKira and well lets just say it would have been a giant turd |
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| Suddenly I have some faith in god now, even if it's just a little. Or that dude who lives above the clouds |
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| Was this the one Keanu Reeves was gonna be in? Or was that Bebop? |
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| Can't say I mind. |
| They should just cancel the project, heh lol |
BlueCyanide said: best news this year |
| I probably regret this post by now. |
| 2012 is off to a good start |
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Samurai_ said: BlueCyanide said: best news this year |
| Good news. |
| Well now, who can honestly say they didn't see this coming? The script's not even completed, and it's already a fail. Nice. |
| thank god - this is a disaster waiting to happen - what human in their right mind would try to remake the perfection of the original manga/anime in any form, especially live action??? |
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| I never look forward to live action adaptations of anime. More often than not my favourites get ruined. |
| Kill it with fire! |
| Well there goes the epic lolz I was going to get from the movie. |
"What has two arms, two legs, and is alive? Not your favorite character lol! xD" |
BlueCyanide said: best news this year QFT. |
| INDEED THIS IS A BLAST OF A AWESOME GOOD NEWS!!!!!!! |
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kirby said: Samurai_ said: BlueCyanide said: best news this year |
| My brother and I are pleased to hear of this wonderful news. I cringe every time I see the mess of Dragon Ball that Hollywood adapted. |
| Not surprised at all.. |
| Great, I don't have to stand the existence of an another shitty anime-live action film. Seriously, anime is so much easier to make and good looking |
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Exkalamity said: What the hell is "below-the-line talent" and why does the production of an live-action anime adaptation have to resort to such questionable resources? if you are not an actor, director, producer, or screenwriter, then you are below the line. i work on film sets here and there and yet i still don't understand why there is a separation of classes like this. still, this is pretty good news. i hope its cancelled. |
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| I get the feeling that it will come, but as a low-budged movie. :( No one famous apparently wants to do anything about it, since it's been "in production" so long, so they end up using B-movie directors and cast. |
| YES!!!! Cancel it! CANCEL IT! |
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