Deus Ex Human Revolution sound track much?

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.

Then again, who would be?

Gotta agree, this fan-made cheese is already better than anything outta Hollowood I'd be willing to pay dillies for, meaning: I'd drop a twinsky to see this flick in a theater....that served beerz.

Kaneda is from Canada.

Osric Chau. Played the young Monk in Emmerich's "2012", and Kevin Tran on "Supernatural".

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.

Agreed *related= http://videosift.com/video/Akira-Tetsuo-s-Trippin

Akira - Tetsuo's Trippin' has been added as a related post - related requested by eric3579.

Got inspired after seeing this clip - whipped out my copy and watched it again - first time on over ten years - and it was much better than I remembered...

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.