On today’s episode of Hollywood After Dark, we break down the end of Taika Waititi’s Akira, the return of Michael Bay to Transformers, Villeneuve joining Bond, Batman’s sequel script, and Cameron calling out Nolan’s Oppenheimer.
WB Loses Akira Rights After 22 Years of Doing Nothing
Taika Waititi’s live-action Akira is officially dead. Warner Bros. lost the rights after over two decades of development hell, and the project has reverted to Kodansha. But maybe—just maybe—that’s the best thing that could’ve happened.
