{"id":26848,"date":"2011-10-20T21:22:48","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T01:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=26848"},"modified":"2011-10-20T21:22:48","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T01:22:48","slug":"live-action-akira-back-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/live-action-akira-back-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Action Akira Back On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/akira2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/akira2-450x337.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"akira2\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/akira2-450x337.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/akira2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/akira2.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last May Warner Bros. shut down pre-visualization for its live-action Akira film. A week later, film director Albert Hughes departed the production, citing &#8220;creative differences&#8221; with the studio. This week Warner announced that it intends to begin production of the movie in earnest in late February or early March 2012 with  Jaume Collett-Serra (Unknown, Orphan) directing. Tron Legacy star Garrett Hedlund is reportedly the front-runner prospect to star in the film. Warner describes its adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo&#8217;s sci-fi manga as a projected &#8220;$90 million blockbuster.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1118044771\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last May Warner Bros. shut down pre-visualization for its live-action Akira film. A week later, film director Albert Hughes departed the production, citing &#8220;creative differences&#8221; with the studio. This week Warner announced that it intends to begin production of the movie in earnest in late February or early March 2012 with Jaume Collett-Serra (Unknown, Orphan) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26848","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\/26848","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=26848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26849,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26848\/revisions\/26849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}