Live Action ‘Akira’ Remake is Officially Dead as Shit!

Whew, that was a close one.

Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way and Warner Bros. Pictures were totally about to rape the single most respected piece of animation in the world, but according to Bloody Disgusting, the bullet has been dodged. At least for now.

From Bloody Disgusting:

Sad news comes in this weekend as we have learned that not only has Robinson left the project, but Tetsuo and Kaneda’s adventure is “dead as a doornail,” a report we’ve confirmed with two separate sources. I can only hope it gets revived in the near future as this could have been one of the coolest effin’ movies ever.

One of the coolest effin’ movies ever? Idunno about all that. Considering the facts that Tetsuo was going to be renamed Travis and the setting was moved from a post-apocalyptic Neo Tokyo to a post-apocalyptic New Manhattan for no reason, I had my doubts about this project from the start.