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Amazing Live-Action Fan-Made Akira Trailer Helps Us Revisit Neo Tokyo — cinemablend.com

Let's reiterate: it's a bad idea to remake Akira as a live-action American movie. It's a horrible, horrible concept to place that dialogue, those themes and those action sequences in the hands of America. No offense America, but you don't get to have everything. It's not a good marriage. But a trailer, like the one above? Sure, fair game. Good job, The Akira Project. Based in Canada, CineGround is the studio behind The Akira Project, which aimed to adapt several of the key visuals from Akira into a short trailer, a task that's been two years in the making. And hey, it looks cool: Akira DOES translate to live-action in its visuals, even if this is a much milder evocation of the original material. The project was partly crowd-funded, which is interesting because if someone said you'd have to pay to see an English-language Akira, why wouldn't you say no?

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