Andy Khouri, writing for Comics Alliance, brings us some fabulous news:
In what is possibly the best comics-to-film news we’ll report this year, the live-action American adaptation of AKIRA that pretty much everyone agreed was a terrible idea has apparently been shelved.
Why am I so happy about this? Just like The Last Airbender, they were planning on recasting it with white actors. AKIRA is a fundamentally Japanese movie — anyone who’s seen it can tell you that. Good riddance to this project, I say.