{"id":17930,"date":"2009-09-09T12:33:30","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T16:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=17930"},"modified":"2009-09-09T12:34:17","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T16:34:17","slug":"akira-screenwriters-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/akira-screenwriters-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Akira Screenwriters Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/ask-john-will-we-ever-see-akira-ultimate.jpg\" alt=\"Akira Movie Not Dead Yet\" title=\"Akira Movie Not Dead Yet\" width=\"282\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14462\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In June, Bloody Disgusting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloody-disgusting.com\/news\/16472\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> that Warner Bros.&#8217; Akira live action film project was &#8220;dead as a doornail.&#8221; The following month film producer Andrew Lazar <a href=\"http:\/\/ifmagazine.com\/new.asp?article=8393\" target=\"_blank\">told iFMagazine<\/a> that the project was not dead, and that Warner had writers actively working on a script. Now, Collider <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collider.com\/2009\/09\/07\/exclusive-akira-movie-update\/\" target=\"_blank\">reveals<\/a> that the screenwriters at work on the Akira script are Children of Men screenwriters Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby. The Collider report supports Lazar&#8217;s earlier claim that the movie, &#8220;is a real priority project for Warner Bros.&#8221; Collider continues to state that the film begin filming as early as next year for a 2011 release as a major event movie.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aintitcool.com\/node\/42282\" target=\"_blank\">Ain&#8217;t It Cool News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Article provided by Daniel Zelter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June, Bloody Disgusting reported that Warner Bros.&#8217; Akira live action film project was &#8220;dead as a doornail.&#8221; The following month film producer Andrew Lazar told iFMagazine that the project was not dead, and that Warner had writers actively working on a script. Now, Collider reveals that the screenwriters at work on the Akira script [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17930"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17932,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17930\/revisions\/17932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}