Fan-made Akira trailer is closest we’ve come to live-action adaptation
Albert and Allen Hughes, the brothers who brought us The Book of Eli, were attached to direct a live-action adaptation of the 1988 animated classic Akira for a while, but the project fell through and has once again receded into the shadows. To appease and please fans of the original film, the folks involved in The Akira Project have created a top-notch fan-made trailer for a film that may never be.
Watch the fun trailer after the jump.
Here’s a description of the project via The Akira Project’s YouTube page:
The Akira Project is a crowd-sourced, non-profit project meant to create a live action fan trailer of AKIRA, the renowned manga-turned-anime film from the late 1980′s; a stunning example of both mediums as art forms. While Hollywood has been working on a live-action Akira movie for a few years now, we, as fans, wanted to take a shot at making our own adaptation. A chance to stick as close to the source material as possible. A chance to do Akira Justice.
We launched an Indiegogo campaign in July 2012 as part of a crowd sourcing effort to make this project come to life. Many people contributed not just financially but offered their time and talent to help the production that was shot in Montreal, Quebec from November 2-5th 2012. What started out as a simple idea between two guys having a beer (Hey! It’d be cool to see Kaneda ride his bike around Neo-Tokyo!), became a global endeavour, filled with adventures and hurdles, involving more than 40 artists in 12 different countries.
After a year and a half in post-production, we are proud to present the project to Akira fans the world over. We hope to have done justice to the timeless work of Katsuhiro Otomo and look forward to, someday, seeing the full scope of the Akira story translated to the big screen as a live-action.
Just for kicks, here’s the original trailer for Akira from way back in 1988: