Live-action Akira

[singblueeyes]

Yeah, I'm so old-school it hurts....

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/080221/entertainment/entertainment_akira_col

So, they're gonna make live-action Akira....

Not sure how I feel about this.

It will either be amazing or an epic fail.

I think I'll wait to see who signs on....

Comments

[plutospawn]

I don't know how I feel about it with DiCaprio's name attached to it. Not that I doubt the guy, just that Akira is Akira because it's Japanese and I don't think that DiCaprio and Hollywood will be able to not put some kind of Americanized spin to it.

I think part of the reason why I like Asian cinema (particularly Catonese and Japanese) is that it's very, very different from Hollywood conventions. It doesn't make it better, just drastically different than what I've been spoonfed since birth. I wonder if that's how a Japanese twenty-something would feel in regards to Hollywood or European cinema vs. Ichi the Killer.

[singblueeyes]

That's pretty much how I feel about it. I just rewatched Akira last month after almost a decade. It still holds up as mind-blowing...I imagine Hollywood would try to give it a moral, or take that "vague" ending and beat us over the head with the imagery bat instead...

[plutospawn]

Giant amoeba! What is the moral to a giant amoeba!