Jayme said:
That first sentence makes zero sense to me.
What doesn't make sense?
Akira, the animated adaptation by Katsuhiro Otomo was released well before he finished writing the Manga, he hadn't even made up his mind on how all of the events panned out. I read somewhere, I don't remember where as it was a while back, that the live action movie would have more in common with the manga than it did the anime. That scrapped script, with its references to heavy drug use on Tetsuo's part, the bowling alley (which is the Clowns hideout, whom Tetsuo becomes the leader of).
Likewise, Kaneda leaves Kei to go off in search of his bike.
As for the Messiah references, the writer of the article completely overlooks Tetsuo serving the ressurected Akira in the Manga, which leads to my second sentence where I state the journalist clearly doesn't know his Akira. Most of what he mentions happens in the first book (aside from Tetsuo reviving Akira) and we don't know where and when the scenes in that script were supposed to be used within the context of the movie.
People are seeing "Live Action Akira" and adding the term "remake" at the end, its not a remake at-all, but people are mostly ignorant and just think they're using the animated movie as reference, the above comparison with the scrapped script shows that it has more in common with what Otomo put down on ink and paper rather than celluloid.