WB creating live-action Akira - Part 1

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[terry78]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=42210


I don't even know how they plan on doing this. The original **** makes no sense.

 

[DoomsdayApex]

I really like the Ellen Wong choice.

 

[DoomsdayApex]

There's no excuse at all for WB to f**k up the casting. There are plenty of good Asian actors around in Hollywood. Instead, they're casting two terrible white actors to play Asian characters.

 

[HighFivingMF]

Well the characters aren't going to be Asian if a white person is going to play them, obviously.

 

[Paroxysm]

Bumping this for the new thread.

Kaneda- Shannon Kook Chun

Tetsuo - Ezra Miller

Kei - Ellen Wong

The Colonel - Ken Watanabe

 

[DoomsdayApex]

Tetuso, Kei, and Kaneda.

Yes, Caucasians with Asian names... not being Asian. That makes no sense.

 

[DoomsdayApex]

Personally, I would prefer Jon Foo for the Kaneda role.

 

[Project862006]

well seeing how tetsuo is travis in the script not really asian names

 

[DoomsdayApex]

Link?

If they are indeed changing or modifying the names of the original characters, then they might as well change the title of the adaptation too.

 

[craigdbfan]

Bumping this for the new thread.

Kaneda- Shannon Kook Chun

Tetsuo - Ezra Miller

Kei - Ellen Wong

The Colonel - Ken Watanabe

Now that would be a cast I could get behind.

 

[Viscal]

Watanabe as the colonel works really well. Especially since he can sport a mean stache and that he has gained a bit of weight lately.

 

[DoomsdayApex]

Watanabe as the colonel works really well. Especially since he can sport a mean stache and that now since he has a lot of gray hair

Definitely, I could think of no one else to play the Colonel but Ken Watanabe.

 

[HighFivingMF]

Tetuso, Kei, and Kaneda.

Yes, Caucasians with Asian names... not being Asian. That makes no sense.

A Caucasian person with an Asian sounding name is too out there for a movie set in the future about bikers with psychic powers?

 

[craigdbfan]

Yusuke Iseya as Yamagata

 

[DoomsdayApex]

A Caucasian person with an Asian sounding name is too out there for a movie set in the future about bikers with psychic powers?

Let's see. Akira is a Manga that takes place in a post-apocalyptic Neo-Tokyo.

You tell me.

 

[Ender Durden]

Well, can anyone answer this?

Has there ever been an asian remake or adaptation of an American or European film/book with a primarily caucasian cast or characters, redone with a primarily asian cast? and if so, was there an outcry within the country to have the characters recast to fit there original depictions?

 

[Paroxysm]

Kaori - Jessica Henwick

Akira - Allen Evangelista

Kai - Steve Yeun

 

[ironwez20]

Bumping this for the new thread.

Kaneda- Shannon Kook Chun

Tetsuo - Ezra Miller

Kei - Ellen Wong

The Colonel - Ken Watanabe

Dude yes ! perfect casting. I dont care if its new york or whatever just dont make the damn characters white. I bet Zac effron is going to be tetsuo.

 

[DoomsdayApex]

Well, can anyone answer this?

Has there ever been an asian remake or adaptation of an American or European film/book with a primarily caucasian cast or characters, redone with a primarily asian cast? and if so, was there an outcry within the country to have the characters recast to fit there original depictions?

I'm certain there has been at one point, but Asians are a group in Hollywood that are shown little to no respect.

 

[craigdbfan]

Bumping this for the new thread.

Kaneda- Shannon Kook Chun

Tetsuo - Ezra Miller

Kei - Ellen Wong

The Colonel - Ken Watanabe

Yusuke Iseya as Yamagata

Kaori - Jessica Henwick

Akira - Allen Evangelista

Kai - Steve Yeun

Now this is the perfect Akira cast. Although I'd find someone else for Akira someone far, far more younger. Next we have to cast the espers.

 

[Paroxysm]

Oh, forgot about...

Ryu - Kiroyuki Shimosawa

 

[craigdbfan]

 

[Paroxysm]

Okay cast change for the role of Akira. lol

Akira - Noah Ringer

 

[DoomsdayApex]

Oh, forgot about...

Ryu - Kiroyuki Shimosawa

Yes!