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Warner Brothers set to make new Akira
KharBevNor:
It's really not surprising that the film version of Akira feels incomplete and somewhat confusing. The manga is getting on for 3000 A4 pages in length and has a complex enough plot to require a dramatis personae. Metaphysical exposition that takes up half of volume four is crunched down into about two minutes in the prison (and even then they don't have time to get into entropy), and the scientific speculation on the nature of the Akira effect is rendered down to a single line uttered by the chief scientist before he is crushed.
Skyrocket:
--- Quote from: JJXB on 26 Feb 2008, 02:11 ---NO. NO. NO. I enjoyed it and i don't think it deserves to be ruined. it's bad enough death note was remade into 2 films that ended up being crap.
--- End quote ---
Even if the live action version sucks nothing is going to change in the animated version. I really don't see crappy adaptations as being a threat to the original source material.
Alex C:
I think Akira's a touch long, more than anything-- I can accept "WEIRD SHIT HAPPENS!" as a movie premise, as long as you concentrate on the weird shit and a couple of strong characterizations. It's just when they keep injecting rather incomplete and subsequently pointless background information into the proceedings that the movie really loses my attention. As I said before, I think a firmer emphasis on the friendship/rivalry between the oblivious Kaneda and the passive-aggressive Tetsuo followed by jumping straight to balls-to-the-wall weirdness and climactic ending with some of the more pointless exposition removed would have made for a tighter movie, and I don't think it would really have lost much because the movie is remembered for it's excellent animation and art direction more than anything.
It's understating things a bit to say that it was American audiences who were unused to such visuals-- Akira was a highly polished effort by any standard, with over a 150,000 cells of animation and it was one of the few Japanese projects (maybe even the first? I forget) in which voice actors were recorded first with the animation produced to fit the voices instead of vice versa-- it may be standard procedure in many American productions and Disney in particular, but in Japan the prohibitive cost made the stereotypical poor dubbing one of the many cost cutting maneuvers that contributed to an overall lower standard of animation. That's not to denigrate the artists, mind you, but the fact of the matter is that most animation studios simply didn't have the budget for the kind of polished effort you'd see from a Disney or Don Bluth project of the same era, so Akira really was something of a coming out party.
KvP:
I remember that as a child, watching Akira, I mostly hated it because of Tetsuo's girlfriend getting humiliated/punched by the gang and then getting crushed inside of Tetsuo. That really bothered me. It still does, but the muddled nature of the nature is also annoying.
Ikrik:
I'm going to say that it's going to be terrible right off the bat. After seeing trailers for Speed Racer which is going to be pretty much exactly like Spiderman 3 (great graphics, shitty movie) I don't have high hopes for any "anime" movie being remade. Have they just run out of J-horror films to rip off? I watched A Tale of Two Sister and three days later I heard that it was being remade. Exact same thing happened to me with Shutter. The fact that they want to remake Akira is....ehh. And personally I love Michael Cera but he's not a punk kid...he's awkward. At least it's not being made by Uwe Boll.
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