Advertisement
 Added on May 23, 2011  Alan Smithee   , , ,

Things Don’t Look Good for Akira Remake

Decrease Font Size Increase Font Size Text Size Print This Page

I know that we tend to avoid that ‘hive-mind’ mentality when it comes to movies and anime here at WPR, but I’m certain that we’re in perfect harmony here in our thinking of Akira (the manga and anime) does not need to be made into a live-action movie for American release.

Whether Warner Bros. knows it or not, nobody seems to be fighting each other over roles in the 2013 $250 million budgeted film. Just take the list of fallen stars so far as an example.

    Kaneda

  • Garrett Hedlund
  • Michael Fassbender
  • Chris Pine
  • Justin Timberlake
  • Joaquin Phoenix
  • Keanu Reeves

    Tetsuo

  • Robert Pattinson
  • Andrew Garfield
  • James McAvoy

Hey WB…you know, for a movie that originally took place in Neo Tokyo and is now going to be happening in Neo American Metropolis, you COULD pick some relatively unknown talent or maybe a few Asian actors for the starring roles. It wouldn’t kill you to do that would it?

SOURCE

Alan Smithee

by Alan Smithee

I sit upon my throne as the owner/shogun of this site, WatchPlayRead. But it wasn't always so. I too have had blogspots, I've done other community blogs, I've even written professionally for other sites out there...yet none of them provided the content I had a real passion for. It is then that I became tired of being a small cog in a big machine, and of writing about nothing but game news after game news article and the periphery that comes from such schlock, like knowing who Michael Pachter and Bobby Kotick are. I decided to start MediaWhoreNetwork.com and ran up my post count there for about 2 years, commenting about any and everything that I wanted to. I even started a weekly podcast that I feel has come into its own. It wasn't until earlier this year that I realized that having the word "whore" in your URL might be a bit limiting to my potential audience. I then made the website and its branding move over to WatchPlayRead.com.

Website

Leave us a Comment