Omega Underground is reporting that Martin Whist (Shane Black’s upcoming The Predator) has now joined the Akira creative team as production designer.
Warner Bros. Pictures’ Akira live-action movie has found its production designer.
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.
Akira is a project that could break the mold for anime/manga adaptations in Hollywood, especially in the post-Ghost in the Shell and Death Note world.