Film Sketchr, recently came across concept art that was created by Howard Lau, for Jaume Collet-Serra incarnation of Akira. Over the years, Warner Bros. has made several attempts at bringing a live-action remake of the classic anime film to the silver screen, but have come up empty each time. The closest they came was 2011-2012, with Jaume Collet-Serra set to direct and Garrett Hedlund set to play the lead, Kaneda. Budget concerns eventually shutdown production, even though the director made drastic cuts to make it more appealing to WB. The cast was rumored to have Kristen Stewart as the female lead (Ky), Ken Watanabe as The Colonel, Helena Bonham Carter as Lady Miyako, and Michael Pitt ("Boardwalk Empire") and Dane DeHaan ("The Amazing Spider-Man 2") were in the mix for Tetsuo. You can read a description of the plot below the Masaru images. As for the images below, for those...
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