Why a Stay-Motion Akira Must Escape Growth Purgatory
For over 30 years, Akira has been the sci-fi holy grail of “should-have-been” Hollywood diversifications. It’s the Kubrickian fever dream of cyberpunk, the blueprint for The Matrix, Inception, Stranger Issues, Nope—hell, even Kanye’s music movies. And but, like Tetsuo’s personal unstable powers, the live-action model of Akira has hovered in a state of unstable potential… … Read more