Warner Bros. Pictures’ Akira live-action movie has found its production designer. Taika Waititi confirmed that he was in talks with WB to direct the project last fall, possibly from the script draft that was written by The Defenders co-creator Marco Ramirez. The Hunt for the Wilderpeople and Thor: Ragnarok filmmaker has yet to either formally commit or pass on the project, but has said that he’s more interested in drawing from the Akira comics rather than the animated film adaptation for his live-action interpretation. Waititi has also offered his assurances that if he directs Akira, he won’t whitewash the leads like last year’s Ghost in the Shell live-action movie did.
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