Legendary looking for their Tetsuo

Wow. It looks like Legendary pictures is actually following through with their plans to pull the long in gestation adaptation of Akira out of development hell and make it a reality. Today we learn that the script that was being re-worked by HP scribe Steve Kloves has resonated well enough to share it with a few actors for the key roles in the film.

Source: Deadline

There are two major roles, and I’m told that for Tetsuo, Robert Pattinson, Andrew Garfield and James McAvoy have been given the new script. For the role of Kaneda, the script has been given to Garrett Hedlund, Michael Fassbender, Chris Pine, Justin Timberlake and Joaquin Phoenix. The two leads are expected to come from that group of actors.

Some of those names are older than I expected but there’s definitely some appreciable talent in there as well. I’m excited that this movie seems to finally be coming together and I look forward to more details becoming available in the near future as production is scheduled to begin this August with ‘the Book of Eli’ director Albert Hughes.