What the FUCK!!
I just read that Leonardo DiCaprio is planning on remaking Akira, he's taking the seat of producer and letting some other cum griffins take all other roles. He's planning on replacing "Neo Tokyo" with "Neo Manhattan" WTF?!?!?!?
It's set to be released in 2011. So your gonna destroy Phantom of the Paradise AND Akira??
I'm not going to go to the cinema ever again if this gets the green light.
Go knock yourself out on an icecube!
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but will it be a cartoon or live action?
If it is a live action version then I would like to see that.
I think someone should give these Hollywood film makers a taste of their own medicine by making a shit graphic novel out of a really good film.
Its live action from what i can comprehend, which by no means gives them any excuse.
Its hard to give them a good dosage, as most large grossing films have already tried to extend the franchise through graphic novels and/or comic series. Even the Godfather Trilogy was made into a comic series in 2007 with the help of Marvel.
This destitute decade of uninspired scripts and screenwriters is not only generating a desperate resurrection of archived masters, it is helping create a large puss filled gorge in my retinas.
The surging catalyst of weaker adaptations of "youth" (youth by which I mean, the audience age of the original showings) glorifying films will hopefully stir the insulted hands of fanboys into flaying fists of disappointment and boycotting.
I wish the film industry would get over itself and use another city as the setting for all it's stories of nuclear destruction and riotous youth revolt. New York isn't anything close to being that dangerous any more, and for all they can make of it, it's already been done in a number of classic movies. Destroy Manhattan and start again.
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The reason for Manhattan as the setting for the film is because the japanese feel "bad" about its destruction in the previous graphic novels. Personally if i was Japanese, I wouldn't care, Id see it as ample payback for Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Yet as FunPolice states, New York and specifically its island of Manhattan has been depicted almost exclusively as the last point of civilization after a nuclear or other apocalyptic attack. Im sick of having to see the Statue of Liberty in some kind of MonsterRaped/MonkeyPlanet/MutationMachineAntennae. Unless they do something inspiringly creative with her and the remaining tourist structures in Akira2011, like completely wipe out all noticeable traces of NY references, Im not gonna be a happy biker boy.
There are loads of enormous urban wasteland style manhatten cities in asia, which would look more mad post apocoplyptic etc, probably because they genuinely are. as opposed to mayor Bloomburg's New York:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8c/Chongqing_at_night.jpg
It's just really boring how inward looking Hollywood is. They remade the italian job/get carter with americans and now akira is being set in New York. Fuck, even The dark Knight was just the chicago skyline with some cgi on it. American audiences might like to see what the rest of the world looks like even if they don't understand it. They'll say they set it in Manhatten because of some political reason, but really it's just lazy, and by reverting back to cliched identifiable settings the movie loses half it's point. I thought 9/11 was pretty apocoplyptic in real life, why not give another city a chance.
(Proper link from above)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8c/Chongqing_at_night.jpg
TTR is right - when I went to the bizarrely westernized province of Liuyang in China the city centre was so huge and desolate it looked like the full story of Akira had already taken place there.
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