Forbes recently spoke to Katsuhiro Otomo about Akira and his other works…. “Actually, when I saw the first rush of the movie version of Akira I thought it would be a failure.
In general, I thought the picture quality and cut quality went down when the movie went into the latter half.
As for what I would do in terms of adapting Akira into my own live-action movie, I really don’t want to do that.