{"id":7193,"date":"2010-02-11T10:57:38","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T15:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=7193"},"modified":"2018-11-18T23:00:28","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T04:00:28","slug":"hghes-brothers-lining-up-for-live-action-akira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/11\/hghes-brothers-lining-up-for-live-action-akira\/","title":{"rendered":"Hghes Bros Lining Up For Live-Action AKIRA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/akira.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3133\" title=\"Akira\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/akira-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"Akira\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/akira-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/akira.jpg 455w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I have to admire the tenacity of Warner Brothers in their attempt to make a live action adaptation of the classic manga and anime Akira. First it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/20\/dicaprio-to-do-live-action-akira-remake\/\" target=\"_blank\">in development<\/a>, then it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/14\/live-action-akira-is-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\">dead<\/a>, then it&#8217;s back <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/08\/warners-taking-another-try-at-live-action-akira\/\" target=\"_blank\">in development<\/a> with the hiring of new writers. Now it is looking like that development is taking another step forward with Warners being in talks with the Hughes Brothers to helm their planned two-film adaptation.<\/p>\n<p>The Hughes Brothers certainly did good work with last month&#8217;s The Book Of Eli, so maybe they&#8217;ll be up to bringing this sprawling epic story to the big screen. If you&#8217;ve somehow managed to miss the original groundbreaking anime film from director Katsuhiro Otomo, <strong>Akira<\/strong> is the story of a teenage biker whose latent telepathic powers are released by  government experimentation in a post-nuclear war, rebuilt Tokyo. The proposed live-action version reportedly moves the action from Tokyo to Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KQnw35kR6Pw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KQnw35kR6Pw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/entertainment\/2010\/02\/akira_remake_hughes_bros.html\" target=\"_blank\">New York Magazine&#8217;s Vulture<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">I have to admire the tenacity of Warner Brothers in their attempt to make a live action adaptation of the classic manga and anime Akira. First it&#8217;s in development, then it&#8217;s dead, then it&#8217;s back <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/11\/hghes-brothers-lining-up-for-live-action-akira\/\" title=\"Hghes Bros Lining Up For Live-Action AKIRA\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[106,84],"tags":[886,31,22,2509],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-comicsandfilm","7":"category-news","8":"tag-akira","9":"tag-comics-and-film","10":"tag-in-development","11":"tag-the-hughes-brothers"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7193"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=7193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}