Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way company is set to produce the long-awaited live action version of the Japanese manga Akira for Warner Bros.

The most recent draft of the screenplay has been written by Harry Potter adapter Steve Kloves, with a view to turning Katsuhiro Otomo’s graphic novel into a mid-budget picture along the lines of the recent Clash of the Titans.

Spanish director Jaume Collet-Serra looks likely to be helming the movie; he has recently been responsible for House of Wax, Goal II: Living the Dream, Orphan and Unknown.

Akira is set in Neo-Tokyo, 40 years after a nuclear explosion destroyed the Japanese city, and deals with a secret government project that deals with psychic powers that have developed. Katsuhiro Otomo created it between 1982 and 1990, and an English version was printed by Marvel’s Epic Comics line from 1988-1995.

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