After the news broke that Keanu Reeves passed on for the role of Kaneda in Warner Bros.' heavily-anticipated live-action remake of AKIRA, the development of the movie is now suffered for another blow -- director Albert Hughes has grown fed up with the studio's approach and decided to walk out from the project.
With Hughes out of the picture, he is the second director to quit the project after original director Ruairi Robinson passed on earlier in the process.
But Warner Bros. hasn't shut down the project yet as they are on the fast track to look for immediate replacement to continue with the AKIRA one way or another.