film adaptation of "Akira" finds its protagonists among the new generation of young actors in Hollywood. Deadline reports that the new script for this production from Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures which is also the company of Leonardo DiCaprio among its producers, was sent to a short list of performers, seeking to define the two main roles of the film. Among the names being considered are those of Robert Pattinson and the new Spider-Man, Andrew Garfield.
"Akira" live-action version of the six-volume manga by Katsuhiro Otomo, making definitive course after several years of work. The rewrite of the script made by Steve Kloves has satisfied the director Albert Hughes and producers, giving the green light to start casting that defines the actors playing the main characters: Tetsuo and Kaneda.
For the role of Tetsuo, producers have sent a new script to Pattinson, star of "twilight" that would have special arrival at a young age, Garfield, one of the fashion names in Hollywood thanks to her performance in "network" and his signing as Spider -Man, and Scotland's James McAvoy, a more mature and maybe not so popular but with proven talent, as demonstrated in works such as "Atonement of passion" or "The Last King of Scotland." While
to cover the character Kaneda, has been sent the script to Garrett Hedlund, seen in "Tron: Legacy" and soon in the highly anticipated adaptation of Walter Salles's classic Jack Kerouac, "On the Road", the German Michael Fassbender, who starred in "Inglourious Basterds / Basterds" and is the younger Magneto in "X-Men: First Class", Chris Pine, or Kirk of "Star Trek ", the increasingly busy Justin Timberlake, and Joaquin Phoenix, who could have his big comeback to the movies with this project.
Since Warner Bros acquired the rights of manga, "Akira" has become one of the most important for the study. The plan is to convert the six volumes in two films, each covering three books.
The films of "Akira" tell a story set in a refurbished Manhattan, where the leader of a gang biker saves his friend in a medical experiment.
Previously, Otomo's work was adapted into a film in 1988 in an animated feature that has become a cult classic and a classic in its genre.
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