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Akira Movie To Go Ahead With Director Taika Waititi

April 12, 2018 Julie Hassett

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The live-action Akira movie was originally announced by Warner Brothers back in 2002. Since then, it seemed doomed to fail with several different directors and writers taking over the project since then. Taika Waititi, director of the recently successful Thor: Ragnarok, took over in September 2017. While little information has been released since then, in an interview with Dazed (via […]

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New Rumours Appear For Live-Action Akira Trilogy

September 16, 2015 Ciaran Nolan

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The live action adaptation of the 1982 manga, Akira, has been in production hell for some time now, ever since the rights were bought by Warner Bros back in 2002. The manga was written by series creator Katsuhiro Otomo, with an anime film adaptation being produced in 1988. The film has left a legacy that many […]

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Anime/Cartoons

Marco J Ramirez To Write New Akira Script

June 9, 2015 Declan Doody

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You just can’t kill the Akira movie it seems! Warner Bros. haven’t given up on the manga/animated feature spinoff just yet and reports are circulating that a showrunner from the Marvel/Netflix smash hit series Daredevil is now going to tackle the script. Marco J. Ramirez, who wrote the first season for the Netflix exclusive series, is reportedly […]

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Anime Club Opening In The Roundy Bar In Cork

May 30, 2015 Mary McFadden

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We love a good anime gathering! At 9pm on Wednesday the 3rd of June, Cork’s Roundy Bar opens its first anime club night.  Starting with the classic Akira, organisers are hoping that this will be the first of many regular, scheduled anime screenings to come. Entrance is free, though donations would be appreciated of course. To find your way […]

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The Akira Project

February 21, 2014 Declan Doody

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“The Akira Project is a crowd-sourced, non-profit project meant to create a live action fan trailer of AKIRA, the renowned manga-turned-anime film from the late 1980′s; a stunning example of both mediums as art forms. While Hollywood is trying, for the fourth time, to complete a live-action adaptation of Akira, we, as fans, felt like we […]

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Katsuhiro Otomo planning a new Shonen Manga

March 27, 2012 Sean Mulkerrin

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In a recent interview  Geijutsu Shincho magazine Otomo-san dropped some hints on one of his upcoming projects,  This time a Manga set in the Meiji period (1868-1912 essentially the time period of Japan leaving an isolationist fuedalistic society into it’s more modern incarnation)  Very little details were given apart from the time period and it will […]

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