Akira presentation june 4th 07 by Ruairi Robinson

This was the original presentation Ruairi Robinson put together to help WB secure the rights for Akira back in 2007. It consists of a trailer Ruairi Robinson cut using the original anime, a rip reel of references from other movies, and a few visual tests Ruairi Robinson did in a hurry to give an impression of the movie. The whole thing was put together in 3 frantic weeks fueled by a lot of coffee. Ruairi Robinson is not a big fan of rip reels, because he think it’s hard to represent the movie he want to make by sampling other movies that don’t really look like it... and purists may balk at the “New Manhattan“ in the trailer (this reverted to New Tokyo very soon afterwards by the first draft of the script.) Unfortunately they couldn’t get the budget under 200 million bucks for that draft which was a bit rich for what was proposed as an R rated movie with no stars. But if nothing else, hell, at least Ruairi Robinson cut a pretty cool trailer for the original anime.