paperheart Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 Taika Waititi’s ‘Akira’ Will Take Off In Summer 2021 Warner Bros. has unveiled that the WB event film that was hanging around May 14, 2021 is now moving to May 21, 2021 and will be Taika Waititi’s take on famed cult manga Akira. ComicConnoisseur 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bosco685 Posted July 5, 2019 Author Share Posted July 5, 2019 While the live film is being produced, it looks like the anime original film will also get extra love. Quote Katsuhiro Otomo is returning to his seminal work for a brand new animated project—one that will go beyond what the iconic 1988 film already accomplished. Announced yesterday evening at Otomo’s panel at Anime Expo, Akira will be reborn across two different initiatives: first, an ultra-HD remastering of the original movie, which is set to release on blu-ray in Japan on April 24, 2020, with a western release coming at a later date (interestingly timed, given that Warner Bros. recently dated its own long-in-the-works adaptation of the film, helmed by Taika Waititi, for 2021). It marks the first time Akira will be available in 4K. That’s not all, however. Otomo also announced that work has begun on a new anime “project” at Sunrise based on the original manga. According to Anime News Network, it’ll be a TV series rather than a new movie, and the project is deliberately not a sequel to Akira, but instead a continued re-adaptation of the manga it was based on. The adaptation hopes to encompass the entirety of Otomo’s original manga—something the movie couldn’t do, as it went about condensing the manga’s beats and themes into its 124 minute runtime. BCarter27 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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