Leonardo DiCaprio to Produce Akira Live-Action

"The Hollywood Reporter and Variety entertainment trade periodicals both report
that Warner Brothers and Appian Way, the Production company of actor Leonardo
DiCaprio (Titanic, The Aviator), will adapt Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira manga into two
live-action films. Each film will cover three volumes of the renowned science-fiction
manga about a governmental genetic project and a teenager's attempt to save a
fellow biker gang member.

The manga set in Neo-Tokyo, a city rebuilt after being destroyed in a mysterious explosion.
Otomodirected his own animated film adaptation that premiered on July 16, 1988 — the
same day that the story has the fictional Tokyo being destroyed. The first live-action film
is scheduled for release in the summer of 2009 and will move the story's setting to "'New
Manhattan,' a city rebuilt after being destroyed 31 years ago."

Ireland's Ruairi Robinson will be making his feature directorial debut with this project,
and Gary Whitta (Book of Eli) is writing a script. Warner Brothers once had the film rights
for Akira before, but Executive Vice-President Greg Silverman (300, Batman Begins) had to
re-acquire them from Kodansha after a round of pitched bidding that reached seven figures.
Mad Chance's Andrew Lazar, DiCaprio, and Appian Way's Jennifer Davisson will produce.
No announcement has been made regarding the cast.

Quoted from animenewsnetwork.com

My thoughts,
Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Yeah! maybe this movie is gonna be like titanic 2.
Just hope they make a good live action with this. Hope they don't throw it down the
drain, its a classic and a revolution to all comics, anime, movie and everything related
to the industry. Akira was 1 of the 1st Anime movie I ever seen, with its violence,
gore,a good story line and a freaking cool bike. Maybe 1 day the world might end up
like the 1 in Akira. Neo-Earth. That could be possible at the rate we humans are
going now, in the near future there might not be a earth to live it. We will all
be destroyed or live on the moon or Mars. Ahhhh...that might we cool. Oh ya..
back to the movie. My last thoughts are, Dont Screw This Up!

quote of the day -
The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the
tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds
the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder
of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger
those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name
is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee. BAng! BAng! BAng! (the dude`s dead)
-Jules- Pulp Fiction