Warner Bros. has hired Jaume Collet - Serra to replace Albert Hughes on its live - action adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo's pioneering
cyberpunk manga.
Twilight star Kristen Stewart has been offered the female lead in Akira, Warner Bros.» live - action adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo's pioneering
cyberpunk manga and anime, Twitch reports.
Directed by Jaume Collet - Serra, the $ 90 million Akira is based on Katsuhiro Otomo's landmark
cyberpunk manga and anime set in a post-apocalyptic New - Tokyo — New Manhattan in the Warner Bros. film — gripped by gang violence and anti-government terrorism.
Fox has set a date for James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez's live - action adaptation of
the cyberpunk manga «Battle Angel Alita.»
Not exact matches
Based on the
manga and anime of the same name, «Ghost in the Shell» is a futuristic,
cyberpunk tale that stars Scarlett Johansson as The Major.
After 10 years of touring in Europe with his metal bands Can of Worms (nuclear thrash metal) and Silent Opera (progressive death metal), he started to write and produce his first synthwave album named «Synth City» in 2015, inspired by
cyberpunk culture and
mangas like Ghost in the Shell, Akira and old 80s / 90s video games like Batman, Saboteur, Beam Rider or FF7.
In 1995 the western world was introduced to the
cyberpunk anime, Ghost in the Shell (based on a
manga of the same name) and two years later a Ghost in the Shell video game developed by Exact (now know as SCE Japan Studio) made its way onto the original.