The script for the Warner Bros/Legendary Pictures live action adaptation of anime artist Katsuhiro Otomo’s 6-volume graphic novel Akira has been sent to a short list of actors. The picture is finally taking shape for an August start, following the delivery of a rewrite by Steve Kloves that has director Albert Hughes and the studio brass excited. The story takes place in the rebuilt New Manhattan where a leader of a biker gang saves his friend from a medical experiment.
"I'm told that for Tetsuo, Robert Pattinson, Andrew Garfield and James McAvoy have been given the new script."
*shriek of horror* ROB PATTZ?! WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?! D8
This is will fail miserably, why can't Hollywood just stop tarnishing great classics?
There are some things in this world I want, and things that I don't.
This is a "don't".