The popular anime movie Akira was set to become a live-action movie, but it was just a week or so ago that it was revealed that development of the movie had stopped and it was all but dead. As it turns out that wasn't so much the case really, as the movie has been given new life today. Collider had the following to say about the matter:

"According to my source, screenwriters Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, guys whose work I like, are about to turn in their version of an “Akira” movie and the reason why the project has been so quiet is they’ve been hard at work trying to get the script right."

The duo is credited with such work as Children of Men and Iron Man.

Akira is often thought of as one of the most popular and defining works of the anime medium, as it was the gateway drug for a lot of anime fans today. Akira was set to be given the live-action treatment by Leonardo DiCaprio's production company, but now word comes that the film is officially dead for the time being. So if you want your Akira fix you'll have to stick with the original anime.