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[JD]

A movie based in japan then the setting changes to new york though it will actually be filmed in vancouver?

[TheFuriousWombat]

if I recall correctly, lots of movies film in Vancouver for some kind of complicated tax reason or something. Doesn't mean they will be actually filming the city, I would imagine a movie like this will be filmed largely in studios and on soundstages and in front of green screens and the like. Where it films will probably end up being irrelevant to everyone except those who are keeping the project on budget.

[JD]

Well yeah I know that Vancouver is the hollywood of the north but a super japanese series getting adapted to somehow being american yet ultimately gets filmed in canada amuses me.

Maybe the marketing will be done will be done by a german company

[DrPhibes]

I'm sad to say i'll probably watch it anyway

[tender]

This is going to be great!

"Akira" Live-Action Plot and Preliminary Casting Revealed
Four cast members listed by Acting Auditions employment site for actors
Humberto Saabedra
November 29, 2011 7:06pm CST (1 day ago)

Following up on our coverage of the Akira live-action adaptation, an employment site for actors by the name of Acting Auditions has revealed the new plot and the preliminary casting of four characters for the film. The plot follows below with the preliminary cast after it.

Plot:

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 before Akira once again destroys Manhattan island, as he did thirty years ago.
 
The site also listed the following actors as part of the preliminary cast for the film:
 
Kristen Stewart as Ky
Garret Hedlund as Kaneda
Helena Bonham-Carter as Lady Miyako
Ken Watanabe as The Colonel

This follows earlier news this month of the above actors being offered the above roles within the past month.

^^

[Dazed]

thank god most of the cast is still nondescript white people

[Method of Madness]

I had no idea who Garrett Hedlund was, apparently he was Achilles's "cousin" in Troy, which I think gets more hate than it deserved.  (As for his performance, I don't even remember it)

I approve of Helena Bonham-Carter by default, because, well...fuck yeah, Helena Bonham-Carter.  Also, woo Ken Watanabe.

Not sure why they made Tetsuo and Kaneda brothers, though.

Also, Dazed, I may have said this before, but I love the shit out of your avatar.  Yay dancing corgi!

[MrSteevo]

The Budget is around 400 Million dollars, biggest budget to hit Vancouver I think ever.

[DrPhibes]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1134795/
 

Part one of a two-part
 


Produced by
Leonardo DiCaprio    ....   producer

The writers seem okay enough for this movie.

[Kugai]

Oh dear

Does anyone remember Heaven's Gate ? *Cringe*