Comments on: Neo-Tokyo Saved? Akira Live Action Dead.

By: Chris Sheehan

Chris Sheehan — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:18:22 +0000

Not sure whether to be happy or upset at this news… was the potential cast ever mentioned?

I do kind of hope that in a few months I’m reading a similar article on the WB Death Note movie, however.

By: Shaunelle

Shaunelle — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:24:11 +0000

Why is there a need to turn animation into live action films? Didn’t Hollywood see what happened with Dragonball? Some things are better left alone!

By: Andrei

Andrei — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:25:09 +0000

Indeed. With Neo Tokyo called New Manhattan and god know what other transformations, this would have been another one of those “americanized” movies, brainwashed and easy to digest. What bothers me the most is that the producers of this DEAD (thank you) movie considered that the only way to present another culture is through massive transformation (Akira would have been only a name in the beginning of the movie). Cant north American people digest another culture like it is? One of the coolest movies ever? I don’t think so. Maybe from the perspective of someone who doesn’t care about anime and who doesn’t care about Akira. From my perspective, it should have been called “Leo and Warner hit Japan”.

By: Animenerdz

Animenerdz — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:17:15 +0000

it would have been awful anyway