Producer Andrew
Lazar for Mad Chance (Space Cowboys, Jonah Hex) has told
iFMagazine at Comic-Con International that while the writers for the Live Action
Akira are working on a draf script it's not likely we will see the movie any time soon.
"It is a real priority project for Warner Brothers." he said "Sometimes movies need an enormouse amount of prep, like this one. It is not realistic to go before the third quarter of next year for a 2011 release."
This doesn't mean that the project has been given the green light for production yet either.

There is 'a lot of interest from a variety of people' for possible directors as indicated from Lazar. Lazar also emphasized that he is a 'very inclusive producer of underlying rights' and that the original manga creator
Katsushiro Otomo is an executive producer and consultant on the proposed live-action project.
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