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    Akira (Taika Waititi??)

    I was just watching Adult Swim and they said that they are making Akira into a live action movie and Leo is Kaneda. Crazy.... but i LOVE IT!

    This is the only thing I could find after a quick google and it's old news.

    http://jalopnik.com/359319/leonardo-...o-remake-akira

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    I also heard the rumor of Joseph Gordon Leavitt as Tetsuo. That would be fantastic. Unfortunately those two castings are supposedly false rumors.

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    Quote Quoting Skitch (view post)
    I also heard the rumor of Joseph Gordon Leavitt as Tetsuo. That would be fantastic. Unfortunately those two castings are supposedly false rumors.
    bah. should have figured coming from adult swim.

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    Only real thing I've heard is that DiCaprio's production company is the crew making this flick.

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    Great casting idea for Tetsuo. I'm not saying anyone should ever make this but JGL is a great choice.

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    Quoth Charles Dickens,

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    That's too bad. I was kind of looking forward to seeing how this would pan out.

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    Agreed. It would've been, at the very least, interesting.

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    JGL would be good.
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    JGL would be perfect.

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    Ken Leung as Tetsuo.
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    Children of Men screenwriters are working on the adaptation.

    And the studio states that this is still very much a priority, hoping that if all goes well it'll go into production next year and be released in 2011.

    They also say this won't be some mid-range budget movie. This will be one of the big, tentpole releases for that year.
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    I am almost perversely interested in seeing this actually happen.

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    I am surprisingly ambivalent either way.
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    Quote Quoting megladon8 (view post)
    They also say this won't be some mid-range budget movie. This will be one of the big, tentpole releases for that year.
    As far as I'm concerned, 2011 so far is all about this, Lincoln, Batman 3, Spider-Man 4, Thor, Green Lantern, and Crank 3D. Looking like a huge year already if everything escapes preproduction.
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    Akira Next For Hughes Brothers?
    Kaanedaaaaaaa!
    Source: Vulture

    A live-action version of Katsuhiro Otomo's seminal manga and anime Akira has been grumbling away in development hell since the early 1990s. Last September saw the first news in a long time emerge, that a new script was being worked on by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby. And now we're hearing from New York Magazine's Vulture that Warners are finalising the paperwork with The Hughes Brothers to direct.

    Fergus and Ostby co-wrote the excellent Children of Men (not to mention Iron Man and Cowboys Vs. Aliens) so they've proved they know their way around a dystopia. But The Hughes Brothers are a surprise. Clearly the performance of The Book of Eli has put them in favour at Warners, but nothing on their CV (Menace II Society, Dead Presidents, From Hell) so far has hinted at future projects of the colossal magnitude of Akira.

    Leonardo DiCaprio's company Appian Way is part of the production team, along with Andrew Lazar, who's currently wrangling Jonah Hex. Talk is still of two films, each roughly covering three books of the six-volume manga (Otomo's two-hour original film was made before the books had finished, and ends differently), with a budget of at least $300m. We won't even attempt a plot synopsis but the idea last year seemed to be to relocate the story from Neo-Tokyo to a Neo-Manhattan.

    If this comes off, it'll be a sci-fi extravaganza up there with Blade Runner and The Matrix and Avatar. If not, two words for you: Johnny Mnemonic. We'll be astonished if it isn't in 3D. And we'll be even more amazed if, as Vulture suggest, part one is released next year. Not a chance. We're saying 2012 at the earliest.
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    The action sequences in Book of Eli were pretty great, and the Hughes Brothers have always had a good eye. I like this if it's true.

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    Neo Manhattan = NAY

    DiCaprio as Kaneda = YAY

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    I'd watch it... hard.
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    I want this project to stop.

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    *starts packing for Hollywood muder spree trip*

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    news trickling in

    Steve Kloves, best known for adapting seven of the eight Harry Potter films for Warner Bros., has been recruited to polish the studio's live-action remake of Japanese manga epic Akira.

    Albert Hughes is directing Akira, based on Katsuhiro Otomo's graphic novel set in a post-apocalyptic Japan. Warner acquired the Akira rights three years ago from publisher Kodansha and set it up with Andrew Lazar's Mad Chance with Appian Way's Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson Killoran. Hughes and his brother, Allen Hughes. will also produce.
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