Taika Waititi's AKIRA Will Be Released Summer of 2021 and Neo-Tokyo Setting is Confirmed — GeekTyrant
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Warner Bros. has announced that the release date for director Taika Waititi' s live-action adaptation of Akira is May 21st, 2021. A new logline for the film was also released that confirms the film will be set in Neo-Tokyo and not the Neo-Manhattan setting that was previously rumored . That’l
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