Marco J. Ramirez has been hired by Warner Bros. to pen a script for a live-action take on Akira, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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If at first you don’t succeed,: Try, try, try again. That’s the mantra Warner Bros. has had with Akira. Over the years, the studio has brought in many screenwriters and directors to tackle a live-action remake of Katsuhiro Otomo’s 1988 Japanese animated classic Akira. All of those attempts came up empty.
In 2012, cameras were about to roll on Akira, but WB pulled the plug when the budget issues couldn’t be resolved in a timely fashion. That version would’ve been directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and starred Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Stewart, Ken Watanabe and Helena Bonham Carter.
Perhaps, Ramirez can finally get things headed in the right direction for WB. Ramirez is currently serving a co-showrunner for the second season of Netflix’s Daredevil, which had been spearheaded by Steven DeKnight (Spartacus).
Akira (1991) – Neo-Tokyo, 2019. The city is well on the way to rebuilding after World War III. The central characters, Kaneda and Tetsuo, two high school drop-outs, are members of a joy-riding motorcycle gang. In the opening scene, Kaneda and Tetsuo stumble upon a secret government project to develop telekinetic humans, apparently for use as weapons. Tetsuo learns of the existence of his ‘peer’ Akira, the project’s most powerful subject, and determines to challenge him…
