Allen and Albert Hughes, who directed the recent hit Book of Eli, are in talks with Warner Bros. to helm a live-action version of the manga and anime classic Akira.
Created by Katsuhiro Otomo and originally published as a six-volume manga in Japan by Kodansha, Akira was made into an anime version in 1988 that gained cult status in the United States.
The live-action adaptation is being considered as a two-movie project, with a script by Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby and Garry Whitta. The movie would move the story ‘ about a tough young biker who tries to help a friend abducted and turned into a psychic weapon by the military ‘ from post-apocalyptic Tokyo to post-apocalyptic Manhattan.
The Hughes brothers are not new to the comics scene, having adapted Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell’s Jack the Ripper tale From Hell to the screen in 2001.
