Live action Akira film in the works, might turn out to be a flop
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As a huge fan of Akira, the hit Anime movie from 1988 and the Manga, I’m not too thrilled about the movie rights being sold to Warner Bros. A report a few years ago suggested a live action Akira film was in the pipeline, however, the director Jaume Collet-Serra walked away from the project back
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