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Remakers Mark 23, Part 1 {Akira}: Creating Small Gray-ish Benny Hills

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In episode 23 of Remakers Mark we tackle our first animated movie, 1988’s anime classic Akira. Unlike the original, which was a Japanese language anime movie, we are remaking it as an English language live action film (except for Jer, who goes a slightly different path). We tackle recasting two major roles and five major-minor roles. Along the way we discuss the original’s creation of small grayish Benny Hills, think about how to cast and remake the movie as a live action movie, have a hard time remembering who is who in the movie, and we all give ourselves plenty of leeway with presenting the original voice actors’ names.

  • 00:00 – 00:15: Adventures in Google Doc hijacking
  • 00:16 – 03:21: Intro, and favorite cartoon ever
  • 03:22 – 03:52: Thanks to Modern Antics – check out Riddle Room!
  • 03:53 – 08:47: Summary of Akira, and our history with the film (and anime in general)
  • 08:48 – 22:03: Recasting Kaneda
  • 22:04 – 35:19: Recasting Tetsuo
  • 35:20 – 58:06: Recasting five ‘Major-Minor’ characters
  • 58:07 – 59:05: Outro

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