Warner
Bros. problematic adaptation of the classic manga Akira may yet make it in
front of the cameras. After years and years of going back and forth, it seems
that WB has settled for a director and a budget.
Originally
WB hired Albert Hughes (From Hell and The Book of Eli) to helm the project but
because his version of the film needed a budget of 180 million dollars, WB keen
on making the film with a smaller budget stopped the production on its tracks.
Then
came director Jaume Collet-Serra (House of Wax, Orphan and Unknown), who managed
to lower the budget from the previous 180 million to 90 million. Serra’s vision
included Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Stewart, Helena Bonham Carter and Ken Watanabe.
With production already set to begin, WB stepped in again and stopped the
project, with the aim of lowering once again the budget to a more sensible 60 –
70 million dollars, needless to say, Serra left the project to focus on other
projects and any development on the film stopped entirely.
After
over a year of limbo, it seems that WB is again attempting to bring the project
back from dead and it seems that director Jaume Collet-Serra is once again
connected to the project. Before bringing Serra back, Wb tried to bring directors
that were used to direct lower budget films, like Catfish and Paranormal
Activity 4 directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, but because the studio was
always keen on having Serra directing the project they waited.
It seems
that the new new vision that Serra has for Akira fits within the smaller budget,
but what is unknown is if this new vision still has the previous cast.
Jaume
Collet-Serra just finished Non-Stop, an airplane thriller starring Liam Neeson
and is currently in pre-production for another thriller called Run All Night,
which also stars Neeson, with Joel Kinnaman and Ed Harris.
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