Akira Movie Not Dead After All?

In June, Bloody Disgusting reported that tentative Akira live action film(s) director Ruairi Robinson had left the project and the entire production was “dead as a doornail.” Last weekend film producer Andrew Lazar confirmed for iFMagazine that the film project doesn’t have a director, but, “It is a real priority project for Warner Bros. and so [the writers] are working on a draft.” Lazar further cautions, “Sometimes movies need an enormous amount of prep, like this one. It is not realistic to go before the third quarter of next year for a 2011 release.”