- Joined
- Apr 16, 2017
His rationale for doing it was "A mainstream audience doesn't know what Akira is." Beyond the fact that Akira's a pretty common reference point in terms of classic anime, he basically wants to make a, let's just say $150 million dollar cyberpunk movie called "Tom".
Granted, it's not as terrible and reinforcing of his disregard towards flyover country and story structure as his Terminator and Escape From New York ideas are, but it's still pretty bad.
Was he one of the people who complained about whitewashing in Ghost in the Shell?