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Somehow, director Albert Hughes and writer Albert Torres are reportedly going to attempt to turn the original manga – which spotlighted more characters beyond the Tetsuo/Kaneda love/hate relationship, but was by no means more kid-friendly – into two PG-13 movies, with the setting shifting from Neo-Tokyo to “Neo New-York.” That’s like turning Blade Runner into a Saturday-morning cartoon. At least one role, Colonel Shikashima, is allegedly being offered to a POC actor, in this case Morgan Freeman.

Still, at this point it’s fair to question whether it’s worth it for the films to even be called Akira. The original fanbase is not going to dig these changes, and the prospective new audience likely could give a damn about the source material, with an adaptation that might go a little like this:

Every night, Maddow proves that you can be painstakingly polite and reasonable to conservatives—and still be tough and critical and super-liberal. Ultimately, her way of dealing with conservatives is better than Stewart's. She should have him on and prove it.