Katsuhiro Otomo, the creator of the Akira manga and director of the iconic 1988 anime film, has revealed his "one major condition" for a live-action adaptation.
"I did give one major condition to a live-action version and that is that I had to check and approve the scenario," Otomo said in an interview with Forbes.
Otomo noted that he has not yet seen the Paramount's recently released live-action adaptation of Ghost in the Shell— which original anime director Mamoru Oshii said he has no problem with—but said he's "mostly okay" with someone taking Akira in a new direction.
"When it comes to Akira I have already finished the original manga and my own anime version too. So in that sense, I am basically done with Akira," he explained. "I accepted the offer for a live-action Akira to be made, so I am generally okay with whatever they want to do with it."
Otomo went on to say that he thinks "being entirely bound to the original manga of something like Akira would not make any sense as a movie," and said that if he was adapting Akira into a live-action film, he'd "much rather do something entirely new and separate."
Warner Bros. has been trying to get a live-action Akira movie off the ground for fifteen years now. While Get Out director Jordan Peele was reportedly in discussions to direct the project, he's since signed a two-year deal with Universal Pictures, and is working on an untitled social thriller for the studio.
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