Ghost in the Shell Writer & Akira’s DiCaprio Interviewed
Props go to ANN for this bit of news
Shock Till You Drop has posted an interview with Laeta Kalogribis, the current screenwriter for Steven Spielberg’s planned live-action adaptation of Masamune Shirow’s Ghost in the Shell cyber-police manga. Kalogridis was once also hired by James Cameron to script his planned adaptation of Yukito Kishiro’s Battle Angel [...]
The Hughes Brothers (Book of Eli) Involvement In the Live Action of Akira
New York Magazine’s Vulture blog reports that the Hughes brothers — the directors behind Menace II Society, Dead Presidents, From Hell, and The Book of Eli — are negotiating with the Warner Brothers movie studio to direct the planned live-action film adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira manga. ComingSoon.net reported in December that Mark Fergus and [...]
Otomo involved in Akira LAA script.
Credit goes to ANN for this update. Gary Whitta, former screenwriter for Warner Brothers’ upcoming live-action adaptaion of Akira, has recently posted an update on some details of the film’s script. The script has since been turned over to Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, with Whitta not having worked on the project “for about a [...]
LAA Akira: Still in the Pipeline?
It seems that our assertion last month that Warner Bros.’ plans to adapt Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira to live action had fallen through may have been premature. ANN reports (without so much of a mention of bloody-disgusting.com’s claims that the project was “dead as a doornail”) that in an interview at Comic-Con International last week, Mad [...]
Remember That Live Action Akira Movie Coming Out? Well It’s Dead.
It was about a year ago that we reported on the news that Warner Brothers and Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way were all set to give us a live action Akira. It was also reported that Ruairi Robinson, an irish filmmaker, would be making his feature directorial debut with the film.
Well it appears that now Robinson [...]
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