Footage From Leonardo DiCaprio’s Live Action Akira Revealed!
Well, no, I’m quite obviously lying through my teeth, but you can’t blame a guy for pulling a bait ‘n’ switch now and then. Seriously folks, if the internet has taught us anything it’s that we should know better than to allow ourselves to get hooked by a cheap headline. Let this be a lesson to you all.
Onto the subject at hand, I share some of the reservations fans have over classic properties getting modern overhauls, especially when an abrupt jump beyond the original media or genre is involved. That said, I doubt Warner Brothers and DiCaprio will reach quite this comical height of Hollywood adaption bullshit. It’s not that I expect anything beyond total mediocrity in cases like these, which is pretty damned instinctual at this point, more that I’d prefer to take the high road for once and allow myself the luxury of a pleasant surprise.
A question: why is it always the sci-fi/fantasy anime which gets optioned for live action remakes? Why not mine source material which could be molded into solid critical successes, such as Grave of the Fireflies?
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