Akira Live Action: Just money or anything more?

• 03/12/2008 - 00:00
• Author: Ukeboy
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Akira's fans (and others), I'll tell you a news that made me perplexed, if I can say it, but the right adjective should be sceptical, and made me change idea about the originality of nowaday's movies.

    

Just take a 20 years old story.... and save it for a moment. Take the movies made by directors who were famous because of their attentions to details and to the film logic... and set it aside.

Then take the "Warner Brothers", and the spirit of Hollywood to spoil every single film which some of its producer tries to remake after ages, with live actions, and place all of them into our daily sandwich of Nanodians news... Here you are! We created the news that you'd NOT hoped to read!

Nice! So, now the you're ready to know the new “cinematic pizza” of 2009... in the wake of the Hulk remake, Fantastic Four and many others... returns on the big screen, after 20 years, it, the futuristic and apocalyptic AKIRA!

The original plot-line of Akira, manga edited by Katsuhiro Otomo in 1982 and then become movie in 1988, retrace the vicissitudes of two guys: Kaneda and Tetsuo. Kaneda is the leader of a gang of motocyclists called Capsules and Tetsuo is the younger of the group.

After the apparition of strange figures (children?) called Espers, Tetsuo is dragged in activities of the Government about a project called AKIRA, showing not to be just a kid, but something better.

From this point starts the big, disquieting, worryingly and apocalyptic journey of Kaneda, who investigates on the clues of his friend and gets involved in fights against groups of rebels, government secret service, top secret facilities and, pay attention, Akira. The one who.... surprise!



The environment is futuristic and is set in a Neo-Tokyo, a rebuilt of the homonym town which has been destroyed by the conflicts of the 3rd world war, caused by... another surprise! (just down of here dears, so don't say that I tell you nothing!)



Fortunately – or unfortunately, it depends on how you look at it – Hollywood can make twistings of the plot of its movies, without spoiling the original stories.
Following the American remake, in fact, Neo-Tokyo will become magically New Manhattan, the japanese ethnicities will fuse with totally different ethnic groups, making, in this way, Manhattan a cosmopolitan town.

Well... a new one billion cinematic mix that will make youngsters (interested or not) know a manga in the shoes of a “classical American movie without any sense”.

Worryingly words acts like the side dish of the news: there's promptness in finishing the 1st of the two films (because just one is not enough) before 2009, this means that even Akira will probably be full of bloopers – like MIB – and moreover, just to make it known, the direction has been lent to Ruairi Robinson, the director of Fifty Percent Grey, a short movie which has been named to win the Oscar ( just admit it...: distressing), who has decided himself to make not ONE, but TWO films of Akira, each of them regarding three vols. of the entire manga, six at all of the Kodansha collection.

The actors employed to be in the shoes of the two protagonists are interesting: the first one is Leonardo DiCaprio Owww”, everyone said) in the role of Kaned (What the fook?) and Gordon Levitt (“Owww” everyone said again) in the role of Tetsuo.

But... I tell you some words just to sweeten the finishing lines: the executive production has been given to Greg Silverman, productor of 300 and Batman Begins. Besides, the productors assure that the film can be described with "Blade Runner meets City of God", exact words, which seems a good thing, or not?

So Akira will be:

• another Hollywoodian junk mixed with some famous actors or....
  
• an unexpected successful remake?
  

Time will tell it!

See you laliho next!