Someone Else Is Making a Terrible Live-Action Akira
This time it’s French director Fabien Dubois, who, apparently impatient with Warner Bros.’ inability to make an incredibly shitty live-action Akira movie, has decided to make his own. Here’s a teaser for it, which does pretty much everything wrong I suspect the official Akira movie will also do wrong when and if it ever gets made. Warning: If you’re at all a fan of the original manga or anime movie, seeing a white dude levitating bullets while wearing a shitty version of Kaneda’s jacket may induce vomiting. (Via Twitch)
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