Re-makes not to be made

Remake in Development

Name: Akira (or ahhh kiiii raaah!)

Premise:  Teenager Tetsuo develops powerful telepatic powers in post-world war III Tokyo & his old friend/ rival Kaneda tries to stop him from destroying the world by retriving the near mythic mini-god 

Akira from cyrogentic slumber.    

Reason to be left alone: This will be a two part live-action adaptation from an animated film that was already adapted from a graphic novel comprising six volumes in over two-thousand pages by the creator Katsuhiro Otomo.  Even then as beautiful as the film was it was a vastly simpified & more confusing story than the grapic novel!  Fair enough it will be in two parts, it’s a big story & deserves a long feature time but do we really need to see another adaptation of a work of, & I’m aware I’m bringing out the big L-word, literature on the big screen, or a re-make of a subtitled film, or an old 70s TV-Series?  Are there no fresh ideas to put on screen instead of plainly regurgitating old material?  Another reason for Akira to be left alone will be described in a word that sends shivers down the backs of cinephiles: Americanized.  Shudder at the thought of many a good foreign film ruined by that word.  Akira is a particularly Japanese story that will not be helped by making the love interest more obvious & the moral more clear cut.  Now I would be intrested in a film based on Osamu Tezuka’s graphic novel MW involving an evil genius blackmailing, killing & sleeping with everyone in order to kill off humanity with a posion gas.  What?  Too dark?