{"id":25570,"date":"2011-05-18T13:56:16","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T17:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=25570"},"modified":"2011-05-18T13:56:16","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T17:56:16","slug":"american-akira-movie-in-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/american-akira-movie-in-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"American Akira Movie in Trouble?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Entertainment news website JoBlo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joblo.com\/movie-news\/exclusive-keanu-reeves-passes-on-akira-so-whats-next\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> that Warner Bros. has shut down the previsualization department devoted to development of an American live-action Akira movie franchise and laid off most of employees that were working on the pre-development of the picture. However, Warner reports that the film franchise, &#8220;Is still very much in the development stage,&#8221; and tentative production of the film franchise has not been formally canceled.<\/p>\n<p>In a reportedly separate development, actor Keanu Reeves has formally confirmed that he was offered the leading role in Warner&#8217;s Akira movie and turned down the offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entertainment news website JoBlo reports that Warner Bros. has shut down the previsualization department devoted to development of an American live-action Akira movie franchise and laid off most of employees that were working on the pre-development of the picture. However, Warner reports that the film franchise, &#8220;Is still very much in the development stage,&#8221; and [&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-25570","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\/25570","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=25570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25571,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25570\/revisions\/25571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}