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Christopher Nolan To Direct Akira Trilogy?


The live action adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira has been almost-here for nearly fifteen years. Ever since Warner Bros. first acquired the rights to the iconic manga back in 2002, the project has been passed from hand to hand without ever going anywhere.

Of the many that have tried, Unknown and Non-Stop director Jaume Collet-Serra proved to be the most successful of them all, and even then he only managed to pass the development stage and go into pre-production before being shut down. Serra eventually returned to try to inject some new live into the project, but nothing came out of it, and he left.

Since Serra's departure, Warner Bros. has taken some steps to bring Otomo's six-volume story to the big screen. Leonardo DiCaprio's production company, Appian Way is now handling the project, Sons of Anarchy writer Marco J. Ramirez is penning the new script, and according to Den of Geek the new plan is to make a trilogy of films. The reasoning behind the sudden change in plan is unclear, but I wonder if it has anything to do with budget, which has always been one of Warner Bros. main concerns.

But it doesn't stop here. The site also claims that a source close to the project has told them that Christopher Nolan has contacted someone who was at one time attach to direct to talk about Akira, and though they cannot name names, I would not be surprised if the nameless director was Serra.

Last week we got to some insight into Nolan's upcoming schedule, when a report came out announcing that he had a mystery film due out on July 2017. Could it be Akira? It could. Nolan has a good relationship with both Warner and DiCaprio. The subject matter seems to be right up his alley, and Akira is the type of movie you would open in July. On the other hand I wonder if Nolan wants to do another trilogy based on someone else's work.

Source - Den of Geek
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