Perry White
04-12-2002, 11:55 AM
From today's Hollywood Reporter (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hollywoodreporter/frontpage/brief_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1463137):
Warner Bros. and filmmaker Stephen Norrington have teamed on a Western adaptation of the classic Japanese animated sci-fi adventure feature "Akira," with Norrington writing the story and directing. Jon Peters is producing. "Akira," released in 1988, was based on a Japanese comic book novel and is set in a postapocalyptic Tokyo. It centered on a group of motorcycle-riding teens who must stop one of their members from running amok after he acquires telekinetic powers in a government experiment known as Akira.
Warner Bros. and filmmaker Stephen Norrington have teamed on a Western adaptation of the classic Japanese animated sci-fi adventure feature "Akira," with Norrington writing the story and directing. Jon Peters is producing. "Akira," released in 1988, was based on a Japanese comic book novel and is set in a postapocalyptic Tokyo. It centered on a group of motorcycle-riding teens who must stop one of their members from running amok after he acquires telekinetic powers in a government experiment known as Akira.