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Live-action Akira movie
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DiCaprio is way to old for Kaneda unless they change the story around to accomodate it, which they probably will. Joseph Gordon Levitt would make a pretty good Tetsuo though I think.
My guess is by the time this thing reaches theaters it will only bear a passing resemblance to the source material.
My guess is by the time this thing reaches theaters it will only bear a passing resemblance to the source material.
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"KANEDAAA!!!" "TRAAAVISSS!!!" "KANEDAA--Wait, Who?"
Posted at 11:25 AM Nov 17, 2008
The script for the Leonardo DiCaprio-produced Akira adaptation has hit the early-script-receiving madmen of Latino Review, and...well...they like it. I'm obviously letting my terrible nerd side get the better of me, but I'm having a hard time getting past the fact that Tetsuo has been renamed "Travis." I'd like to think it's not because of the name change, but specifically because of the name Travis (apologies to all Travises out there.) Here's the rundown.
• When the US economy tanks, Japan buys Manhattan—Latino Review calls it New Manhattan (what, no "New New York?") at first, then New Tokyo later. I hope to god it's New Tokyo, although I don't know why they don't use Neo Tokyo—it sounds significantly cooler.
• At any rate, this explains a new plethora of Japanese people in the city, including Kaneda.
• Travis is American, gets picked up by the shadowy government people, experimented on, and starts breaking ^^^^ with his new psychic powers.
Other than that name change and a few characters being switched from Japanese to American, the plot is pretty much an amalgamation of the anime movie and the manga—and it's actually planned for two movies, which is good because you can't add anything from the manga and have a movie less than 3 hours.
I really don't mind the setting change; I knew it would have to happen on way or another, and this seems a great compromise. I don't mind the partial Americanization of the cast—I had assumed it would be 100%. The fact that the producers care enough to add things from Katsuhiro Otomo's original manga means they care, because virtually any other studio would have just dumbed down the movie. But still..."Travis"? Sigh. (Via Japanator)
Posted at 11:25 AM Nov 17, 2008
The script for the Leonardo DiCaprio-produced Akira adaptation has hit the early-script-receiving madmen of Latino Review, and...well...they like it. I'm obviously letting my terrible nerd side get the better of me, but I'm having a hard time getting past the fact that Tetsuo has been renamed "Travis." I'd like to think it's not because of the name change, but specifically because of the name Travis (apologies to all Travises out there.) Here's the rundown.
• When the US economy tanks, Japan buys Manhattan—Latino Review calls it New Manhattan (what, no "New New York?") at first, then New Tokyo later. I hope to god it's New Tokyo, although I don't know why they don't use Neo Tokyo—it sounds significantly cooler.
• At any rate, this explains a new plethora of Japanese people in the city, including Kaneda.
• Travis is American, gets picked up by the shadowy government people, experimented on, and starts breaking ^^^^ with his new psychic powers.
Other than that name change and a few characters being switched from Japanese to American, the plot is pretty much an amalgamation of the anime movie and the manga—and it's actually planned for two movies, which is good because you can't add anything from the manga and have a movie less than 3 hours.
I really don't mind the setting change; I knew it would have to happen on way or another, and this seems a great compromise. I don't mind the partial Americanization of the cast—I had assumed it would be 100%. The fact that the producers care enough to add things from Katsuhiro Otomo's original manga means they care, because virtually any other studio would have just dumbed down the movie. But still..."Travis"? Sigh. (Via Japanator)
Travis? Ugh!
I read a few days ago that DiCaprio said he won't be in the movie.
https://www.cinematical.com/2008/11/12/leonardo-dicaprio-wont-be-akira/
I read a few days ago that DiCaprio said he won't be in the movie.
https://www.cinematical.com/2008/11/12/leonardo-dicaprio-wont-be-akira/
Apparently the movie is now dead. I can't say that I'm disappointed.
https://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/16472
https://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/16472
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EXXXXXCELLENT news! :chew
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That's good to hear! 
plasmid303
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Now if the same would happen to the Cowboy Bebop project I'd be ecstatic.
And now it's back on. 
The good news is that Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby are on board.
https://www.collider.com/2009/09/07/exclusive-akira-movie-update/
The good news is that Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby are on board. https://www.collider.com/2009/09/07/exclusive-akira-movie-update/
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Potential U.S. Akira Casting Rumors Make My Brain Pull a Kaneda
102 comments By Rob Bricken in Anime, Movies Tuesday, Mar 22, 2011, at 4:15 PM
I know I just railed against talking about casting rumors earlier today, and here I am posting about some casting rumors. However, while the JGL/Dark Knight Rises confusion is just kind of irritating, the reported shortlist for the actors being considered for Kaneda and Tetsuo in the American Akira remake are... well, see for yourself (from Deadline):
The tragedy is that these guys aren't bad actors, it's just that they're totally inappropriate for the roles. And while I'm sure some of you are freaking about Robert Pattinson being included, you should remember two things: 1) he hates Twilight more than anybody, and 2) even if you can't stand him, if he was Tetsuo, he would be beaten up, shot with a satellite, and end up exploding in a massive mound of flesh. Seems to me like you should want him cast more than anybody.
The real tragedy is that Japan has already suffered enough recently. I think as payback, they should get to remake one of our beloved, classic comics in the way they see fit. Like maybe Watchmen, set in the present day, and every character is a 14-year-old schoolgirl in a sailor suit.
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Actually, I would love to see that. They need to think of something more punishing. Anyways, thanks to everyone who sent this horrible, depressing tip in.
102 comments By Rob Bricken in Anime, Movies Tuesday, Mar 22, 2011, at 4:15 PM
I know I just railed against talking about casting rumors earlier today, and here I am posting about some casting rumors. However, while the JGL/Dark Knight Rises confusion is just kind of irritating, the reported shortlist for the actors being considered for Kaneda and Tetsuo in the American Akira remake are... well, see for yourself (from Deadline):
I... I don't even know where to begin with this. Now, I wrote off the American Akira adaptation the second I heard of it; it's just one of those things too intrinsic to a time and place (1980s Japan) to work in Neo-Manhattan in 2013 or whatever. But still, HOLY ____ THIS CAST. Kaneda and Tetsuo are ____ing teens -- I know those roles are often played by actors in their 20s (Pattinson and Garfield) but McAvoy, Fassbender, Pine, and Phoenix are in their ******* mid-30s! Michael Fassbender looks like he's 45! Why not cast 80-year-old Bill Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, and call it Grumpy Old Men 3: The Akira Incident?
The tragedy is that these guys aren't bad actors, it's just that they're totally inappropriate for the roles. And while I'm sure some of you are freaking about Robert Pattinson being included, you should remember two things: 1) he hates Twilight more than anybody, and 2) even if you can't stand him, if he was Tetsuo, he would be beaten up, shot with a satellite, and end up exploding in a massive mound of flesh. Seems to me like you should want him cast more than anybody.
The real tragedy is that Japan has already suffered enough recently. I think as payback, they should get to remake one of our beloved, classic comics in the way they see fit. Like maybe Watchmen, set in the present day, and every character is a 14-year-old schoolgirl in a sailor suit.
...
Actually, I would love to see that. They need to think of something more punishing. Anyways, thanks to everyone who sent this horrible, depressing tip in.
fosing
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they should include justin bieber in the cast. more crap in this crapfest couldn't hurt. 
Shatterer of Dreams
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ugh.....I don't even have the words for this.........
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