For literally the better part of the last decade, we here at your humble Newswire desk have been keeping a wary eye on Hollywood’s efforts to bring a live-action movie version of anime classic Akira to the screen. The Keanu era; the Garrett Hedlund era; the canceled era, the un-canceled era, and more: Through them all, we’ve watched with a certain queasy satisfaction as Warner Bros.’ attempts to capture Katsuhiro Otomo’s cyberpunk ode to psychically distressed flesh has bounced from creative team to creative team, attempting to find a star willing to attach themselves to a project with this many expectations hanging off of it, like so many distended veins molting from the flesh of a whiny former biker turned into a human pufferfish from hell.
