We’ve seen a couple of different storyboard views of Warner Bros.’ stalled, whitewashed, live-action Akira remake, but Rodolfo Damaggio’s concept art for some unnamed incarnation of the film offers something a little different: a couple of mockups of the ad-filled streets of Neo-Manhattan as well as a possible design for the tragically non-Japanese equivalent of Kaneda.
https://gizmodo.com/unused-storyboards-show-what-the-american-akira-couldve-5895469
https://gizmodo.com/these-unused-american-akira-storyboards-are-actually-qu-5943526
The emphasis on this version of Neo-Manhattan sees to be on the crisscrossing aerial roads, but the advertising is also interesting. I assume the ads themselves are placeholders and that Apple wouldn’t be using the same iPod ad campaign this far into the future. I wonder, though, whether the folks working on the project planned to use familiar brand names in their rebuilt city.
And sigh, white Kaneda. We hope you stay in development hell.
The Vault [Rodolfo Damaggio via Comic Book Movie]
