One Of These Actors Will Get To Play Tetsuo In WB’s Live Action AKIRA Movie

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Ok, so what’s the development on WB’s $90 Million live action AKIRA movie? quick recap shall we.. Garrett Hedlund will play the lead role of the bike leader Kaneda. Helena Bonham Carter and Keira Knightley were said to have been approached for a currently undisclosed roles
And WB wants Gary Oldman to play the colonel.
Twilight and SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN star Kristen Stewart reportedly has been offered the female lead role of KEI, who is Kaneda’s love interest
Ezra Miller (We Need To Talk About Kevin) and Alden Eherenreich (Tetro) may be competing for the role of Tetsuo. But Miller told moviefone that he’s not gunning for the role…

“It’s not true. That, I can assure you, will not be a reality. It’s a beautiful Japanese epic and I think it’ll be a very entertaining, fun film, but no, it’s not my next move.”

So you can now rule Miler out..
Who else want the role of Tetsuo?..

Hollywood Reporter said these actors are will be screentesting soon..

D.J. Cotrona (TV’s Detroit 1-8-7, G.I. JOE 2: RETALIATION)
Logan Marshal Green (Devil, PROMETHEUS)
Toby Kebbell (RocknRolla, WAR HORSE)
Richard Madden (HBO’s Game of Thrones)
Rami Malek (HBO’s The Pacific, THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 2)
Michael Pitt (The Dreamers, Funny Games, HBO’s Boardwalk Empire).
Paul Dano (Little Miss Sunshine, There Will Be Blood, Cowboys & Aliens)
Alden Ehrenreich (Tetro).

Which of those names above (they’re all still up and coming and rising actors) do you think should play Tetsuo?

Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson Killoran will produce via their shingle, Appian Way, in collaboration with Andrew Lazar‘s Mad Chance.
Katsuhiro Otomo, who wrote and directed 1988′s Japanese anime movie version, will exec-produce

AKIRA, based on anime artist Katsuhiro Otomo’s six-volume graphic novel masterwork, is set in a futuristic post-nuclear war Tokyo in 2019 where a teen biker gang member is subjected to a government experiment which unleashes his latent powers. The gang’s leader must find a way to stop the ensuing swathe of destruction
BUT the movie version will be set in “New Manhattan,”

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