Well, that was kind of my point, though maybe you didn't take it that way.

The Akira film wasn't even faithful to the Manga, and even then it is still a really amazing piece of cinema. All this seems to be is a rehash of the animated film. It does nothing different or innovative.

The only time I think I would accept an Akira live action is if their little demo reel was a few scenes done in SUCH an inventive way that it completely took the story from 90-degrees from the left. Just wholly unexpected, but something you would watch and think "I recognize what scene this is, but I never even imagined envisioning it that way. That is fucking genius".

This was not genius. Most of this was hardly even on par with my College student films. I will agree with @chingalera that it's probably moderately better than anything hollywood would turn out, but I also don't think that's hard to do.

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One of the coolest scenes from Akira, imho, was when he got out of the room and pushed out in a sphere in the hallway.

Matrix ripped it off for the "death" of Smith.

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Ugh... While I appreciate the sentiment, if there was ever a modern live action version for Akira, these guys should not be the ones to make it.

Well the opening scene in the classroom is a shot for shot remake of a scene from Akira, and the glowing eyed children is from Village of the Damned. So there's definitely a cinematic influence in there.

Jesus, truly, we now live in the age of Akira.

Yes, perhaps plot is influenced by Akira but visual style is more GIST.

I was thinking more like Akira, especially plot-wise.

Bad news is Superman is more like Tetsuo from Akira. Good news is that you can become super human IRL. This is excellent news!

The Akira explosion at the end nailed it.
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Akira Yamaoka - music

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Reminds me of Akira.


Yeah, was just about to say the same.