Producers hope to start filming later this year or next year...
AKIRA
STATUS: Late 2011
PRODUCER: Andrew Lazar - Jon Jashni - Leonardo DiCaprio - Jennifer Davisson Killoran
DIRECTOR: Jaume Collet-Serra
LP: Ralph Winter
WRITER: Albert Torres - Steve Kloves
1019 ENTERTAINMENT
MAD CHANCE
APPIAN WAY
LEGENDARY PICTURES
WARNER BROS. PICTURES
When a young man's telekinesis is discovered by the military, he is taken in to be turned into a super-weapon and his brother nuts race to save him before Manhattan is destroyed by his powers. Kaneda is a bar owner in Neo-Manhattan who is stunned when his brother, Tetsuo, is abducted by government agents led by The Colonel. Desperate to get his brother back, Kaneda agrees to join with Ky Reed and her underground movement who are intent on revealing to the world what truly happened to New York City thirty years ago when it was destroyed. Kaneda believes their theories to be ludicrous but after finding his brother again, is shocked when he displays telekinetic powers. Ky believes Tetsuo is headed to release a young boy, Akira, who has taken control of Tetsuo's mind. Kaneda clashes with the Colonel's troops on his way to stop Tetsuo from releasing Akira but arrives too late. Akira soon emerges from his prison courtesy of Tetsuo as Kaneda races in to save his brother bfore Akira once again destroys Manhattan island, as he did thirty years ago. Live action adaptation of anime artist Katsuhiro Otomo’s 6-volume graphic novel Akira.
Source: Twitlonger
This year's 39th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine is announcing on Monday that Yuu Aoi (pictured right), Munetaka Aoki (pictured below), and Taketo Tanaka have joined next year's live-action film adaptation of Nobuhiro Watsuki's Rurouni Kenshin samurai manga. Aoi (Hana and Alice, Honey and Clover) will play Megumi Takani, while Aoki (The Last Message Umizaru, live-action The Girl Who Leapt Through Time) will play Sanosuke Sagara. 11-year-old Tanaka will take on the role of Yahiko Myōjin.
22-year-old actor Takeru Sato (Kamen Rider Den-O, Rookies, Beck, Ryōmaden) has already been cast as the title samurai himself, and 17-year-old actress Emi Takei will play the heroine Kaoru Kamiya. Keishi Ōtomo will direct Satoh, Aoi, and Aoki on this new film, just as he did in last year's NHK historical television series Ryōmaden. Warner Brothers Pictures Japan is producing the film, and filming began last month.
