Akira (2013) Details: Machines From the Ghost and a PG-13 Rating
Katsuhiro Ôtomo’s 1988 anime Akira is a film that is difficult to describe without using the word “classic”. The movie dealt with mature post-a-bomb themes that were omnipresent in Japanese culture but had yet to find a mainstream audience.
So imagine our surprise/overwhelming joy when we learned that a remake had been scheduled for a 2013 release, and in live-action no less. The remake is to be directed by twin dynamos Albert and Allen Hughes who found critical and commercial acclaim with 1993′s ode to street-hustlers, Menace II Society. The brothers Hughes’ latest offerings have found the duo dipping into the graphic novel arena with 2001′s From Hell and this year’s The Book of Eli. Neither film was particularly exceptional but did mark a transition that seems to be complete with the Akira project that is readying for production.
Well there is good news and bad news from Albert Hughes, who got to talking about Akira in a recent radio interview. The good news? Akira will be broken up into two movies. Why is this good news you ask? Akira originated as a manga (Japanese comic book) that is over 2000 pages long. Even the relatively faithful 1988 film omitted huge chunks of the plot, so hopefully this version will satisfy the Akira fanboys. The bad news? A confirmed PG-13 rating. Considering that Akira doesn’t have a particularly mainstream audience in America I can see little reason to limit the intense, and visually pornographic, machine-from-the-ghost visuals that made the classic animation so bad-ass. But, box-office receipts do tend to rule the day . . .
We’ll bring you more Akira information as it becomes available.
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“So imagine our surprise/overwhelming joy when we learned that a remake had been scheduled for a 2013 release, and in live-action no less.”
Are you kidding me? Who are you d-bags? It’s going to be complete crap just like any other anime live-action film (Dragonball…) Any fan I know of, i.e. people like me who grew up on it, are in utter dismay that this crap is coming out; a total travisty. The only idiots I can think of that are looking forward to Hollywood ruining yet another great thing, is 12 year olds who just found out about Akira, and who like “Bridges to Tarabithia” and “The Last Air Bender”.
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