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Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

Kaneda — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:15:52 EST

@Airport_Whiskey:Right. It's blasphemy. It should not be touched. It should not be unsealed. I just learned they were making a remake now. This is terrible news.

Kaneda

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

Airport_Whiskey — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:36:52 EST

I am horrified by this idea. Is Otomo really so hard up for cash? "Akira" is anime's "Gone With the Wind" or (more likely) "Apocalypse Now" and remaking it is just as foolish an idea.

Airport_Whiskey

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

vr6john — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:28:49 EST

This will be really really good or really really bad...no in-between...Leo can act his balls off, but I'm not sure such a heavyweight is needed for any of the roles...which leads me to believe that it will be changed up...

Lots of CGI, no doubt...look forward to their stadium sequence vision...puffy Kanada all wired up killing peeps in his new found fat rolls...

vr6john

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

LuciferV8 — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:03:15 EST

Kaneeeedaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!

Tetsuooooooooooooooo!!!!

LuciferV8

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

turbofreak — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:11:19 EST

ooohhhhh man!!! a classic anime movie that shouldn't be remade. and why leo! i think Keanu Reeves would have been better, he does more sci fi flicks then leo.

turbofreak

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

McBrace — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:06:59 EST

OOOOO whats with the new commentage stuff :S pretty kool

AND I loved akira

they better not Knight Fuck it Rider
up

McBrace

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

stjohn — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:38:10 EST

Great. Warner Brothers. Whoever works on it is going to wish for death, because that's how WB makes movies. They'll dick around with it for six months, then step in during the last month of post-production and start handing down 'creative' decisions from on high. They have a unique ability to snatch mediocrity from the jaws of genius.

The vehicles will be cool, unless they turn the animation over to the character department, the result of which will look like papercraft boxes being flung down the stairs.

stjohn

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

dolo54 — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:42:58 EST

I'm intrigued. I loved Akira when it came out, of course I was 18 then, so that figures. Now every time I see some Anime, even the good kind with 1000 penis monsters raping everything in sight I still turn the channel. Come to think of it I would rather see a live action remake of Legend of the Overfiend. very NSFW:

dolo54

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

GreatSunJester — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:41:12 EST

@GreatSunJester: Addedum - just checked Wikipedia and they show
"Andrew Lazar, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Jennifer Davisson will produce the film. No announcement has been made regarding the cast."

Maybe we are safe after all!

GreatSunJester

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

yellofury * * * * * — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:40:32 EST

@Simpsons-Movie-ruled: that looks like the racers from Venus Wars;
[aswars.tripod.com]

how do you post images?
I tried [img] but i got nuthin

yellofury * * * * *

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

GreatSunJester — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:39:47 EST

DiCaprio is too old for any of the gang parts unless they radically rewrite the characters.... unless they are going to have him buff up and buzz cut to play the Colonel. Too tall to be Nezu, maybe the Doctor but that is kind of a minor part for his pay grade.

GreatSunJester

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

marc2068 — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:38:38 EST

I hope I don't see a major fuck up coming,cause it may be one.

marc2068

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

Shapeshifter — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:45:03 EST

@aedwards000:

Fair enough, but Cloud's bike (actually all of them) are basically ripoffs of Kaneda's bike. Without Akira it wouldn't have happened.

(I'm not trying to diss on AC, though, as i love that movie for all the wrong reasons.)

Anyway... i'm not sure how this movie is going to make sense if it's set in America. Like... New York is the new Tokyo? I guess it does get destroyed about once a week now-a-days...

Then again, "not making sense" isn't necessarily a problem for Akira...

Shapeshifter

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

ccc40821 — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:14:04 EST

@scotte: I'm a big fan of Kurosawa, but don't think he 'ripped off' Shakespeare. The Western remake of The Seven Samurais was a fine movie in its own right. For the ultimate remake, see the comdy 'Roxanne' (based on the classic tragedy 'Cyrano de Bergerac') by Steve Martin.

ccc40821

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

Kuang — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:48:17 EST

Looks like 2009 is going to be a good year for comic books turning into films - the Watchmen is finished now and should be released then too, and that's looking amazing.

Kuang

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

skulldriveshaft — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:25:38 EST

I want to see the CLOWNS riding around in one of these :]

The movie might be a little racially charged, and how are they going to have the triangle noses from the original movie?

skulldriveshaft

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

Sian — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:48:44 EST

@aedwards000: What do you think the bikes in Advent Children were inspired by?

Sian

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

om Bronx de Mowgli — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:47:35 EST

i can has new edit functions in mo betters FireFoxes?

om Bronx de Mowgli

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

om Bronx de Mowgli — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:45:49 EST

so... even in my anime period, I still hated Akira...

hrrrmmmm

om Bronx de Mowgli

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

shenanigans — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:16:11 EST

i don't mean to be a downer, but, the bike was ok for Akira, but nowadays you need something more up to date. For instance, the CG movie Final Fantasy Advent Children by Square Enix, remember those bikes? BAD ASS.

shenanigans

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

Buzz Killington — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:51:51 EST

Leonardo DiCaprio has been on a roll lately, (Blood Diamond, Departed, etc), and I think that he has enough sense to make this really good or not do it at all. Think about Frank Miller being involved with the making of the Sin City movie, and how crappy that could've turned out had he not been part of the production. I'm willing to give all involved the benefit of the doubt on this one.

Buzz Killington

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

Kelly — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:41:19 EST

@darex:

Oh, I'm with you on the scooter front being radically different than it was...hey, the Helix was only 20 years ago!

I'm all for the maxi-scooters made, today, and in fact, still secretly lust for an '86 Honda CT110, dual-range gearbox and all. Gotta love a bike with an OEM extra fuel tank and a snorkel!

Kelly

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

johnnyichiban — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:38:00 EST

The whitewash of anime continues...

Speed Racer (Emil Hirsch)
Dragonball (Justin Chatwin! Are you serious?)
Street Fighter (girlfriend from Smallville is Chun Li! Jesus...)
Robotech/Macross (Tobey Maguire, Jesus...H. Christ)

And now Akira. What's next Ninja Scroll with Brad Pitt? Or maybe Ghost in the Shell with Jessica Alba, mmmmmm....

johnnyichiban

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

darex — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:32:02 EST

You know, there has been 25 years of scooter evolution since the Helix!

Some scooters have 16" wheels now.

Some scooters are 800cc now.

The lines are all blurred. There is no longer any clear definition of what is a scooter vs. what is a motorcycle. For every example you can cite, there are exceptions to the contrary. My previous one was a 650cc twin with radial tires and tiptronic shifting, which weighed over 550lbs and max'd out at 115 mph!

The most Akira-like scooter on the market currently is probably the Yamaha Morphous. This is a modern take on the 80's scooters though. It is very UNrepresentative of most modern maxiscooters.

darex

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

christoff — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:10:47 EST

Now I have to take down the original version of the "Bob" poster in my cube at work...

christoff

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

scotte — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:05:22 EST

Rip off...just like japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's work was ripped of--most notably by "spaghetti-western" Sergio Leone.

scotte

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:00:21 EST

Is it going to make no goddamn sense like the original?

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

hoonage.myminicity.com — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:13:29 EST

This movie better be good.

hoonage.myminicity.com

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

SuperRad427 — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:53:59 EST

Well it should be better than speed racer.
and how has akirachan not commented yet?

SuperRad427

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

Blah8 — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:51:07 EST

Dudes, what the hell is this? Why remake this? If you can't appreciate it in it's original animated form, then the movie's just not for you.
Besides, anyone who's seen the movie should be able to attest to the fact that there's a few scenes that would be more than a little tricky to pull off in live action without them looking like total ass. Not to mention that they're changing the setting from Tokyo to New York (presumably due to the westernized cast?). And, finally: Leonardo DiCaprio? Producing? Acting, even?

Blah8

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

Number_Six — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:49:20 EST

@POLAЯ: Digitally rendered Asian features.

Number_Six

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

Andrewpetty — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:42:50 EST

Who is playing the giant mutated amoeba thing at the end?

Please be Rosie O'Donnell

Andrewpetty

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

heet — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:36:48 EST

KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANEEEEEDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...!!!!!!

heet

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

Dr.Danger, I run the Death Star — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:33:58 EST

@POLAЯ: You mean Kaneda?

Dr.Danger, I run the Death Star

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

smokyburnout — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:30:52 EST

yay... commenting seems to be working now.
tried to post the following maybe 6 times.

TETSUOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

if they make the bike a chopper (like in Kanye West's Akira-ripoff music video), heads will fucking roll.

smokyburnout

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

Iamtehawesome — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:28:37 EST

[www.totalmotorcycle.com]

Iamtehawesome

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

Kelly — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:22:39 EST

@Smitty:

Yeah, I saw Helix-redesigned-on-LSD in the black one.

Not necessarily bad, but definitely different.

Besides the Helix having small wheels, which lead to odd handling, it was a pretty neat machine. My wife had one for a while.

Kelly

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

Ω ß®ªғғ — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:56:02 EST

SNAP... TY Polar

Ω ß®ªғғ

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

The-Simpsons-Rule!! — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:55:57 EST

@POLAЯ: OMG THAT WAS SIMPLE!!!!!!

The-Simpsons-Rule!!

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

Ω ß®ªғғ — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:55:53 EST

Ω ß®ªғғ

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

The-Simpsons-Rule!! — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:55:41 EST

The-Simpsons-Rule!!

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

POLAЯMISSESEVEЯYBODY — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:54:15 EST

@ØmÆgä ßrÅff: Now xtra simpole - copy and paste into box!

POLAЯMISSESEVEЯYBODY

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

brianddd — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:51:56 EST

New Jalopnik poll:
Who are the biggest losers... guys who turn DeLoreans into "time machines" or guys who turn motorcycles into whatever the hell that is?

brianddd

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

Ω ß®ªғғ — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:48:45 EST

@POLAЯ: yes... 'splain please?

Ω ß®ªғғ

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

evoCS is possibly NSFW — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:46:31 EST

Forget about tripping balls to Speed Racer, this has the potential to be much more effective.

evoCS is possibly NSFW

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

Smitty — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:39:44 EST

Motorcycles? Those sure look like Honda Helix scooters in Manga clothing to me.

Smitty

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

Wes Siler — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:36:58 EST

Bob: that's classic, good work.

Wes Siler

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

POLAЯMISSESEVEЯYBODY — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:35:38 EST

@ØmÆgä ßrÅff: Can you see this???

POLAЯMISSESEVEЯYBODY

Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Brothers To Remake Akira

Wes Siler — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:30:29 EST

You know, I actually think this has potential. Otomo is on board as executive producer and the director looks like a serious sci-fi freak: [www.imdb.com]

Wes Siler