Oh god! Just read the review. The Hughes Brothers? Are you fucking serious?! I mean Menace II Society, Dead Presidents, From Hell, The Book of Eli, not BAD movies, but I just can't see them being up to the task of Akira. I mean a Tech 9 instead of a plasma cannon, besides the Tech 9 being a turd of a gun, WTF is a nine going to do against a giant expanding all powerful amoeba being? It can't even pierce kevlar. Soooo disappointing.
The one plus is that there appears to be lots of Asian charcters in the script, so not as many white people as previously assumed, and Zak Effron has been dropped from the project.