Warner Brothers has shut down Akira's production offices in Vancouver over "casting and budgetary issues", reports If you haven't been following our constant kvetching about the live-action Akira movie, here's a quick summary of what happened, which we recommend reading while listening to this:The Hughes Brothers were originally attached to adapt books one through six as two movies with a budget of $230 million.

Warner Brothers and Jaume Collet-Serra are still casting the Americanized, $90 million adaptation of Akira, and we have a synopsis of the plot which went out with a casting call.

Last month Warner and director Jaume Collet-Serra were pursuing Gary Oldman to be best friends with because he's awesome to play The Colonel in Akira.