But the movie is not entirely faithful to the comic or the anime series. "I took some liberties with the story ... I'm not comparing Astro Boy to Shakespeare, but look at all the different versions of Hamlet—you can cut the text and update it, and at the end of the day, it's still the same story. Look at Adam West's Batman and Christian Bale's Batman. They've very different—but it's still Batman. So it's respectful, but it's different." Astro Boy is the story of Dr. Tenma, head of the ministry of science in Metro City, a high-tech place of prosperity that floats in the sky above Earth. Full Article at Popular Mechanics