Comments on: Warner Bros. Aiming For February/March 2012 Start On ‘Akira,’ Garrett Hedlund Frontrunner To Star

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:38:43 +0000

Taking the characters of Akira out of Japan is worse than taking Batman out of Gotham.

It just doesn\’t work.

By: tetsuo

tetsuo — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:38:43 +0000

Kaneda is 15-16 years old. What the hell are Fassbender and Joaquin Phoenix doing on that list? Insane.

This is like casting Jude Law as Harry Potter.

By: Jug

Jug — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:38:43 +0000

Fuck Hollywood…

By: Tyler

Tyler — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:38:43 +0000

\”save your strength…\”?

….says person who just wrote out a paragraph in the comments section. ugh.

By: Punchy

Punchy — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:38:43 +0000

sadly, or perhaps not so sadly, there are more people who love to spend their money on big summer blockbusters than their are folks who hold the Akira source material up as some god-like tome. This is why the movie will be made. No one is out to punish Akira fans. It\’s a shitty business. Anime nerds get the shitty end of the stick this time around, but the good news for everyone over-reacting is that no matter how good or bad this feature film version is going to be, it can never remove your love for the original from your mind, so calm down and save your strength for something worth getting irate over.

By: Kevin Jagernauth

Kevin Jagernauth — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:38:43 +0000

I heard Garret Hedlund is Armenian. Most people don\’t know this.

By: Edward Davis

Edward Davis — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:38:43 +0000

Who needs Asians when you have beautiful people like Garrett Hedlund? Can\’t wait for this.

By: KT

KT — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:38:43 +0000

It\’s not like\’Unknown was a great movie or Hedlund\’s performance in Tron Legacy was anything special…

One thing\’s for sure – there were more Tron fans who wanted a sequel than Akira fans who want an Americanized live action remake.

Remember how Tron Legacy was supposed to be the first in a series of film? Kinda like how the Last Airbender was supposed to be a trilogy. We all know how that turned out…

By: Travis bickle

Travis bickle — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:38:43 +0000

Jesus, it\’s bad enough that 95% of the film industry is mostly white male. Now we have to see the American film industry white wash another culture\’s film. This is distasteful and a blasphemous to the creators of AKIRA and Japan. When is Hollywood going to quit it\’s racial conditioning on America\’s population. Do they feel that because the characters are of another race, that the film won\’t sell? Could they really be that out of sync with this generation?

By: Danny

Danny — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:38:43 +0000

Ditto Trey\’s comment.

By: Trey

Trey — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:38:43 +0000

The director of Unknown and the dude form TRON Legacy taking on Akira?

There\’s no way this won\’t suck.

By: paul

paul — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:38:43 +0000

akira with white actors? any smart actor will pass on this. this is a bomb waiting to explode.

By: tevii

tevii — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:38:43 +0000

Check my fake AKIRA trailer out…. http://youtu.be/40KW9Qu0uyE

As much as Im dying to see a live action version, everything Ive read to date about it does not sound promising.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:38:43 +0000

@Punch…you\’re getting irate over nothing, calm down. HAHAHAHAHHAHAAH

By: Punchy

Punchy — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:38:43 +0000

@Tyler, how grossly obese are you that typing a paragraph requires any sort of (mental or physical) strength? Keep on that steady diet of hentai and cupcakes. It\’s rotting your brain just fine.

By: chris

chris — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:38:43 +0000

This basically isn\’t Akira. At all.

I remember reading an article a while back where a designer working on the film said they were changing the look of the signature power bike completely so it would look more rugged or something.

Go figure.