
Taika Waititi’s Live-Action Akira Officially Canceled, Rights Return to Kodansha
After more than two decades of stalled development, Warner Bros. has officially dropped its live-action adaptation of Akira, returning the film rights to the manga’s original Japanese publisher, Kodansha. The highly anticipated project, once spearheaded by Thor: Ragnarok and Jojo Rabbit director Taika Waititi, is now confirmed to be shelved indefinitely. Waititi had been attached…