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Though Albert Hughes (The Book of Eli) walked away from directing the Warner Bros.-helmed live action adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira manga and anime, it seems that considerable storyboarding work was done under his leadership. As we saw in Monday’s release of storyboards by artist Jeffrey Errico, it turns out that the film would’ve featured sequences much more faithful to Otomo’s work than the the film’s panned, highly-Americanized plot description and casting rumors lead fans to believe were possible. Yesterday’s unveiling of further storyboard art by Chris Weston (2000 AD, The Invisibles, The Twelve) cements this notion with an extended sequence that features character designs directly inspired by the original material, although characters such as Kaneda, Tetsuo, Colonel Shikishima, The Espers and numerous background characters don’t explicitly appear to be of Japanese ancestry.
(via More Live Action ‘Akira’ Storyboards Surface Care Of Chris Weston [Art] - ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews)

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Though Albert Hughes (The Book of Eli) walked away from directing the Warner Bros.-helmed live action adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira manga and anime, it seems that considerable storyboarding work was done under his leadership. As we saw in Monday’s release of storyboards by artist Jeffrey Errico, it turns out that the film would’ve featured sequences much more faithful to Otomo’s work than the the film’s panned, highly-Americanized plot description and casting rumors lead fans to believe were possible. Yesterday’s unveiling of further storyboard art by Chris Weston (2000 AD, The Invisibles, The Twelve) cements this notion with an extended sequence that features character designs directly inspired by the original material, although characters such as Kaneda, Tetsuo, Colonel Shikishima, The Espers and numerous background characters don’t explicitly appear to be of Japanese ancestry.