Imagine yourself as an EP on the live-action Akira remake regardless of which studio takes it on and you are asked to name three directors as possible choices to be on a shortlist to direct? Who do you name?

Realistically, I think Akira should be left alone or be done as a mini-series for any streaming platform willing to take it on, four or five episodes at the most.

Anyway, keeping to subject:

Robert Rodriguez

Paul Greengrass (from a script by Tony Gilroy and Dan Gilroy)

Guillermo Del Toro