“Then, if you”re interested, they”ll make “Akira 2” and “3” then you can get deeper into it. “So hopefully in my version that will be strong, and you”ll have a story that happens in that world that will show you a little bit of the mystery,” Collet-Serra continued. What I”m hoping is to bring characters,” he said, adding that Tetsuo is interesting because strange things happen to him. “In the original source material, I don”t think the main characters are the protagonists. The director also talked about his desire to flesh out the characters. It”s something that can only be explained in the manga, and even in the anime it”s hard to follow.” I think if at some point a character tries to explain it to the audience at the end of the second act, that”s a problem. If you”re a fan, you already know what it”s about and you”ll see it”s part of the same world, but trying to oversimplify it would be a mistake. “Like everything else, you have to make three or four movies in one where there”s the essence somewhere.
“I think you cannot make a movie about “Akira” and hope that everyone understands it,” he said. He also addressed concerns that the work will turn our more flashy than cerebral. It will be as different as the anime was from the manga.”
The only way to do a live version of “Akira” is to take the spirit and adapt it. “ Otomo adapted his own work from a manga into an anime and both things are completely different and genius.
“It”s different, because you have to be respectful of the source material,” Collet-Serra told ComingSoon during a press junket for “Non-Stop”. Now he”s back on track with a more focused take. The director was attached to make the film in 2011, but dropped out after Warner Bros. (CBR) Jaume Collet-Serra has been on a long, strange ride when it comes to adapting “Akira”.
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