While the movie is revere­d as a timeless masterpie­ce of Japanese animation, it dive­rges significantly from its source material - the manga. Akira holds a prominent place in both the manga ...

Originally, the new Akira project was billed as a story that wouldn’t be a sequel, but perhaps a retelling of the original manga that would stick closer to that story than the original movie.

Akira sees Shōtarō Kaneda acquiring special powers after a motorbike accident, leading to the movie's central metaphors around a lot of different themes. Hollywood's live-action anime ...

Hollywood has been trying to get a live-action Akira movie off the ground since Sony Pictures acquired the rights to the original manga in the 1990s. Over the years, everyone from Blade director ...

The update might not be the one that fans were hoping for, but the recent interview with Lazar at least kept the dreams of Akira‘s live-action movie alive. When asked about the state of the long ...