{"id":32407,"date":"2014-02-10T09:29:33","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T14:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=32407"},"modified":"2014-02-10T09:29:33","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T14:29:33","slug":"akira-will-be-director-jaume-collet-serras-next-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/10\/akira-will-be-director-jaume-collet-serras-next-project\/","title":{"rendered":"AKIRA Will Be Director Jaume Collet-Serra’s Next Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Is Warner Brothers long in development live action adaptation of the classic manga and anime Akira<\/strong> finally going to get into production? Jaume Collet-Serra, the latest director who has been attached to the project, is doing his best to make sure it is.<\/p>\n

While doing the publicity rounds for his latest film Non-Stop, Collet-Serra told Collider<\/a> that Akira<\/strong> should be his next top priority.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m focusing on Akira though. So hopefully that\u2019s the next one… I\u2019ve done two movies since I put this little pause on that project… But now powers that be are interested.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This doesn’t come as much of a surprise as it is a confirmation of reports from last August<\/a> that Warner Brothers was looking at reviving the project, which the studio had put on hold in January 2012<\/a> as casting was beginning to shape up over concerns about the film’s cost.<\/p>\n

Budget problems have always appeared to be the root of the problem of getting a live-action Akira<\/strong> a reality. Albert Hughes was the first director on the project, but his take was in the very pricey neighborhood of $180 million, When Warners balked, Hughes walked. Collet-Sera had managed to cut the proposed budget in half down to $90 million but the studio still had cold feet and pulled the plug in early 2012 when he couldn\u2019t get the budget down into the $60-$70 million range.<\/p>\n

But Collet-Sera states that it wasn’t actually budget concerns as it was the scope of the film that has kept it from being made so far.<\/p>\n

[I]t\u2019s an overall conceptual thing. You know, it\u2019s how big the movie should be, you know, for the complexity of the concept.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Granted Akira<\/em> is a rather complex manga and I think that Katsuhiro Otomo did an admirable job in adapting his work into the 1988 anime classic. I don’t think that the material would be served by watering it down or skimping on the budget in order to reduce the scope of its story. I wish Warner Brothers would man up and take a chance on a full bore adaptation of this, but it doesn’t look like they are brave enough to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Or so he hopes.<\/div>\n

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