Bloody Disgusting is reporting that the long-rumored and long-in production live action adaptation of “Akira”, the groundbreaking 1982 manga by Katsuhiro Otomo that was the basis of the 1988 anime movie of the same name, is officially dead in the water.

The site broke the news last year of the live-action adaptation of the cyberpunk anime classic about biker gangs, government corruption, and psychic warfare, with Ruairi Robinson directing. However, Robinson has left the project and the whole thing is, according to the site, “dead as a doornail”.

Originally running from 1982 to 1990 before being collected into six volumes, “Akira” was adapted into a critically-lauded animated movie in 1988, with an abridged version of the plot telling the story of a young man named Kaneda in a post-nuclear war Japan whose fellow gang member Tetsuo is discovered to have massic psychic potential. Testuo slowly unleashes forces that might once again trigger immense destruction if he can’t be stopped, and Kaneda is the only one who can do it.

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By Costa Koutsoutis (Source: Bloody Disgusting)