Akira Film Reveals Casting Short List (Surprise: They’re White!)

By Moye | Tuesday, March 22, 2011 | 5 Comments

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Looks like the live-action film of the iconic anime Akira is slowly coming together and today, Deadline revealed the short list of actors to take the two lead roles of Tetsuo and Kaneda. The adaptation now takes place in New Manhattan:

…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.

Why, yes, we’ve always envisioned a real life version of Akira with that glittery vampire from Twilight and bringing-sexy-back Justin Timberlake. YAY! I’m so excited. The Last Airbender was fun to boycott but let’s be honest, we were all running out of Shyamalan jokes. Thanks, Hollywood, for giving us even more to mock.

[H/T Racebending]

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Ernie H.

“BRADFORD!! BRAAAAAADDFFOORRRRRRRDD!”
Fia

Why? Why? Why?! Any but AKIRA! I won’t even care if they whitewash Pokemon or whatever but please god, not AKIRA!

All these shortlisted actors are too old, too. McAvoy is old enough to be Tetsuo’s dad! In case some don’t realize, Tetsuo is fifteen years old and Kaneda is sixteen.

What were theose producers Andrew Lazar, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson Killoran thinking?
moye

@ErnieHsiung This has led me to google the whitest names for a guy.
TinaTsai

Wow, let’s just do Totoro with a pair of white girls and a grizzly bear.
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