Leo Does Akira: Trade Roughage 02/21/08

By Karina Longworth posted 6 months ago

Weird. Leo DiCaprio will produce a live-action, “two-part epic” based on the classic manga/anime Akira. The story will be adapted to take place in New Manhattan, “a city rebuilt by Japanese money.” The HR story actually doesn’t specify whether or not Leo will star in the thing, but if so, I imagine they’ll also “adapt” this skull-head getup so that Warner Brothers can actually see what they’re paying for.
Gore Verbinski is going to make a cartoon, and this one is not going to star Johnny Depp.
Roger Avary and Neil Gaiman will adapt Black Hole, a graphic novel about promiscuous teens passing around a mystery STD (hot), for David Fincher to direct.
Isn’t it a little weird that Variety editor Tim Gray doesn’t actually make a Best Picture prediction in the Best Picture prediction video above? Does this give credence to the “Juno is the new Crash” nightmare scenario that’s been floating around? Or is he just contractually not allowed to disappoint his advertisers?

badMike said 6 months ago
I’ve seen the anime Akira and read the entire manga series and I have no idea where the Hollywood Reporter got that image. If it’s actually from Akira, then it’s some trivial background character. I don’t recognize that image at all. Weird that picked that.