don't f$%& this one up hollywood

Akira is a classic and should be left as such, for Hollywood to take this and make some kind abomination of it is like slapping every anime fan and movie goer across the face and back again. All they'll end up doing will be to Americanize it and ruin the whole premiss of the story. If they want to maintain any respect for this "movie" they should start by having it take place in New Tokyo and not New Manhattan. Either way its still going to suck since its being made for an American audience who doesn't know ****.

At least Keanu Reeves who wants to play spike is putting his own ass and money on the line and trying to please fans by staying faithful to the source and hiring everyone from the original producer and director to the music composers for the live film. They are just starting akira off SO wrong. I am an anime fan, but im a fan of Good movies first and foremost. Just like Dragonball could be seen as a fail right from the beginning because of their cast, This will be an epic fail if they continue down the path of New Manhattan. Akira is heavily sewn throughout the economic and social crisis of Japanese culture. America has not had as big of a crisis due to the fact that we weren't an Isolationist land mass, we just stole everything from everyone else lol! The only twist I am willing to take in this story is being that you didn't get alot of information on the other members of the gang in the anime, I would focus on one of them MAYBE being American and being a spectator to the events of the story. As long as New Manhattan stays in the script, its all going downhill from Here.

I think the Children of Men scribes are capable of making an interesting story out of this, Children of Men was a really good future-end of humanity kind of movie, so they should have some interesting ideas for this story, since its in the same vein. im hoping its live action movie, havent really read the amime series, so dont know much about the plausibility of transfering it to live action. but sounds interesting.

I feel that if this movie were to be made that it would make past movies like Ishtar and Ultraviolet look Oscar worthy.