'Akira' Focuses On Short List Of Actors After Getting Steve Kloves Rewrite

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.

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Sweety85873632d ago

"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

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Yi-Long3632d ago (Edited 3632d ago )

... american remake, live-action, a HUGE 6 manga masterpiece being put to the screen in 1 movie, change of location, etc etc.

I even thought the original anime movie was nowhere near as good as the manga. This remake just sounds like a huge mistake.

Not that I care though. No one will force me to watch it, and I won't.

I'd like the original writer and director to make a genuine CGI incarnation of the manga, and just spread it over multiple movies. Technology and talent exists to do the manga justice.

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Sweety85873632d ago

Doesn't it look like they are DELIBERATELY trying to set it up to fail? XD It kinda sounds like it to me tbh. They're making TOO many changes to the whole thing :(

This whole thing is gonna flop horribly, then Hollywood will scratch their heads and go "I wonder what went wrong" and the entire fandom will simultaneously fall flat on their faces.

I like the CGI idea :D

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