The Tracking Board is now reporting that Warner Bros. Pictures. is actively courting Peele to take on their long-in-development adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo’s Japanese manga Akira.
A few weeks ago he was known mostly as the Key & Peele guy, but now Get Out director Jordan Peele is a hot commodity in Hollywood after his tiny $4.5 million dollar horror movie has grossed over $156 million worldwide and counting.
The article points out that both Daniel Espinosa (Life) and David F. Sandberg (Lights Out) were also in the running to direct before Peele set the world on fire with Get Out, a hot button socio political horror movie dealing with race in America.
The last movement on the Akira movie happened in 2015 when Marco J. Ramirez, writer and co-showrunner of Marvel’s Daredevil Season 2, was attached to pen the script.