{"id":2445,"date":"2011-03-23T22:36:14","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T09:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=2445"},"modified":"2011-12-31T09:35:10","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T20:35:10","slug":"white-mans-akira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=2445","title":{"rendered":"White Man&#8217;s Akira"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t worry folks, even though lots of really big things in the world are going wrong, there&#8217;s still room for some very small things to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2011\/03\/akira-focuses-on-short-list-of-actors-after-getting-steve-kloves-rewrite\/\">go completely wrong too<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe script for the Warner Bros\/Legendary Pictures live action adaptation of anime artist Katsuhiro Otomo\u2019s 6-volume graphic novel <em>Akira<\/em> has been sent to a short list of actors&#8230; I&#8217;m told that for Tetsuo, <strong>Robert Pattinson, Andrew Garfield and James McAvoy<\/strong> have been given the new script. For the role of Kaneda, the script has been given to <strong>Garrett Hedlund, Michael Fassbender, Chris Pine, Justin Timberlake and Joaquin Phoenix<\/strong>. The two leads are expected to come from that group of actors.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[They&#8217;re not actually going to have Robert Pattinson playing a character called Tetsuo. The Deadline link says the action has been moved from Neo-Tokyo to New Manhattan. He&#8217;ll be Theodore. Justin Timberlake will be Kevin. I guess they won&#8217;t be teenagers any more either.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t worry folks, even though lots of really big things in the world are going wrong, there&#8217;s still room for some very small things to go completely wrong too. The script for the Warner Bros\/Legendary Pictures live action adaptation of anime artist Katsuhiro Otomo\u2019s 6-volume graphic novel Akira has been sent to a short list &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=2445\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">White Man&#8217;s Akira<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[28,50,24],"class_list":["post-2445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-and-also","tag-comics","tag-culture","tag-film"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-Dr","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2738,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445\/revisions\/2738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}