Showrunner for Marvel's Daredevil Season 2 Marco J. Ramirez will take on script-writing duties for the long-gestating live-action Akira remake.

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Ramirez, whose background in television includes writing for Sons of Anarchy, Orange is the New Black and Da Vinci's Demons, was announced as the new showrunner of Netflix's superhero series in April. According to The Hollywood Reporter , he'll now be scripting Warner Bros. languishing live-action version of the Akira manga series, with no further detail offered.Leonardo DiCaprio's production company Appian Way will produce the flick, alongside Andrew Lazar and Mad Chance.Akira was born as a manga series that ran from 1982 to 1990, and was adapted into an animated film in 1988. It takes place in a post-apocalyptic Neo-Tokyo, where a secret government project turns two gang members against each other against a background of war.

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