'Akira' Shut Lower: Warner Bros. Apparently Shuts Production Offices

Movies, now under ever? Around the heels of Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures showing some fiscal responsibility with 'The Lone Ranger' and 'Paradise Lost,' correspondingly, comes word that Warner Bros. is once more putting the brakes on the potential financial albatross. Production on 'Akira' continues to be shutdown in order to rework your budget. Based on THR, the 'Akira' offices in Vancouver happen to be closed, as the below-the-line everyone was told to mind home. When the budget issues can't be resolved, 'Akira' might get shuffled away once more (it's hit the skids three occasions formerly). An adaptation from the famous Japanese manga, the film was set to star Garrett Hedlund, with Billy Burke, Gary Oldman and Helena Bonham Carter in discussions also to appear. Jaume Collet-Serra ('Unknown') will direct, provided this really happens. Last summer time, Warner Bros. drawn an identical tactic with 'The Lone Ranger,' before buying a brand new budget (a still-absurd $215 million) with producer Jerry Bruckheimer, director Gore Verbinski and star The Actor-brad Pitt. 'Paradise Lost,' an adaptation of John Milton's classic poem with Bradley Cooper playing Lucifer, was shelved late this year by Legendary Pictures. This, after Universal cast off plans for 'The Dark Tower' with Ron Howard and 'At the Mountain tops of Madness' with Guillermo Del Toro and Tom Cruise. Are galleries in the center of a brand new era of fiscal responsibility? UPDATE: Not? Variety reviews the shutdown is because of script issues. Developing... [via THR/Warmth Vision] [Photo: GF/bauergriffinonline.com] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook