{"id":4746,"date":"2002-04-12T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2002-04-12T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2002\/04\/12\/akira-live-action-adaptation-back-on-track\/"},"modified":"2002-04-12T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2002-04-12T15:59:00","slug":"akira-live-action-adaptation-back-on-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/akira-live-action-adaptation-back-on-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Akira Live-Action Adaptation Back on Track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First rumored as a Steven de Souza (writer &amp; director of the Van Damme Street Fighter movie) project in the mid 1990s then shelved, the American live-action adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo&#8217;s Akira manga is apparently back on the Hollywood drawing board. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbookresources.com\/news\/newsitem.cgi?id=1089\" target=\"_blank\">Comic Book Resources<\/a>, Blade director Stephen Norrington is now attached to the Warner Bros.&#8217; project.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/66.96.236.80\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First rumored as a Steven de Souza (writer &amp; director of the Van Damme Street Fighter movie) project in the mid 1990s then shelved, the American live-action adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo&#8217;s Akira manga is apparently back on the Hollywood drawing board. According to Comic Book Resources, Blade director Stephen Norrington is now attached to the [&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-4746","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\/4746","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=4746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}