Looks like Akira has been ripped out of development purgatory and dropped into production the pits . Warner Bros. has reportedly greenlit music director Jaume Collet - Serra ’s remake of the Zanzibar copal classic .
Hollywood has been trying to adapt the nuclear - psychedelic Anime Akira for American audiences for year . One of theHughes Brothers was going to directthe big budget flick at one point . And bothKeanu ReevesandJames Francohave both been rumored to be asterisk in it ( separately ) — evenGeorge Takei plead with Warner Bros. not to whitewashthe characteristic with all - Caucasoid leads .
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But all that is behind us now , because Warner Bros. require to start filming their Akira in early 2012 , consort toVariety . But wait , there ’s a match — Garrett Hedlund is in the lead for the form of address role of Kaneda . YIKES . Did n’t the studio apartment determine their deterrent example casting this emotionless android in Tron Legacy ? Are we really just go to sit around and let this happen to another potentially awesome movie ?
Then you have the director Jaume Collet - Serra who made the lilliputian - budgeted and extremely enjoyable Orphan , watch by a movie which foretell some of the worst acting , and activity authorship , we ’ve ever check our low-down lives , Unknown . So why this director ? Did Hughes bail because of studio apartment pressure to make this moving-picture show a picky agency ? Hence vomit up the slenderly lesser - known name ? Are we going to get the American variant of Akira ( escort above ) everlasting with talking bike ? We shiver to think what Katsuhiro Otomo would think of Hedlund go , around being called Kaneda by his work party members . Who are probably Ashton Kutcher , Shia LaBeouf , and Noah Ringer .
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