Akira's motorcycle has once again stalled out on the road to a live-action adaptation. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros. has given up the film rights to the classic cyberpunk manga and ...

After six years of near-silence, the live-action anime adaptation of Akira by Marvel filmmaker Taika Waititi is officially dead at Warner Bros. Discovery. The live-action film rights to the critically ...

Over the last two decades, anime fans worldwide have been on the fence about Warner Bros.' idea of creating a live-action adaptation of the beloved film Akira. The original 1988 film is one of the ...

Trying to bring what is widely regarded as one of the greatest animes ever made into the real world is no easy task, so much so that after more than 20 years, Warner Bros. has finally given up on ...

Akira has been “marked safe” from a live-action Taika Waititi redux. The legendary and amazing anime will not be made into a live-action film by the Thor director. Warner Bros. had secured rights to ...

Warner Bros. has had the live-action film rights to Katsuhiro Otomo’s landmark cyberpunk manga and anime since 2002. In that time, filmmakers as varied and diverse as Stephen Norrington, Albert Hughes ...

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