Akira's on a Low Budget

There are just some movies that are train wrecks from the beginning. Don't believe? Go back and look at two years of news prior to the release of Green Hornet, then watch Green Hornet and ask yourself exactly how surprising it was that the movie was that bad. Same for movies like Dragon Ball Z and Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li - go look at all the news leading to them. Same goes for the train-wreck that is the American made Akira. Every news story is a breadcrumb leading to another disaster of a movie.

The lastest story is that Warner Brothers thinks Akira's current budget, $90 million, is just too damn much money. According to the Hollywood Reporter, WB wants to bring the budget down to $70 million before they give director Jaume Collet-Serra the green light. To keep score, so far they've replaced all the asian characters with white actors - except one, the location of the story to Manhattan, lost a bunch of good actors who backed out because they looked at the light at the end of the tunnel and realized it was, in fact, a runaway frieght train, had the director changed twice and now want to trim the budget to something near a Uwi Bol flick. At the end of any story about this movie, everyone should add: Anyone who goes to see this movie deserves to lose those hours of their lives and really should never get them back again.