Video games
In 1988, Taito released an Akira adventure game for the Famicom exclusively in Japan.[103] Another Akira game for the Jaguar,[104][105] Super NES, Genesis and Sega CD was being developed,[106] but canceled along with prospects of another Akira title for the Game Boy and Game Gear handheld consoles.[107] International Computer Entertainment produced a video game based on Akira for the Amiga and Amiga CD32 in 1994.[108] To coincide with the DVD release in 2002, Bandai released Akira Psycho Ball, a pinball simulator for the PlayStation 2.[109]
Live-action film
Since 2002, Warner Bros. acquired the rights to create a live-action remake of Akira as a seven-figure deal.[110][111] The live-action remake has undergone several failed attempts to produce it, with at least five different directors and ten different writers known to have been attached to it.[112][113] By 2017, director Taika Waititi was named as the film's director for the live-action adaptation.[111] Warner Bros. had scheduled the film for release on May 21, 2021,[114] and filming was planned to start in California in July 2019.[115] However, Warner Bros. put the work on indefinite hold just prior to filming as Waititi had chosen to first direct Thor: Love and Thunder, the sequel to Thor: Ragnarok, which he had also directed.[116]
