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>>75183
I get where you're coming from, but that's not always a bad idea--look at the V for Vendetta movie. It was an adaptation of a story that was very firmly about Margaret Thatcher's regime in Britain, but because of how relevant a lot of its themes were to what was going on in America at the time, many conservatives were convinced that it was about the Bush administration. And in a lot of ways, it was--in the sense that history was, to a certain extent, repeating itself, and old protest-comics had become relevant again.
So depending how they had chosen to adapt it, a remake of Akira might have been relevant to America. I would have preferred if it was not actually called Akira (pull a Blade Runner or a Dead Like Me and make it a loose adaptation of a work in a different medium that exists as its own thing despite the influence of the original, for example), but it would not have been impossible to make a good movie out of that.
...now based on what we've heard of the adaptation we're apparently getting, that's not what happened. But I don't take for granted that an Akira movie couldn't have been good.
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