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Keanu Reeves Negotiating for Lead Role in Akira
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Any role that requires Keanu to not really know what's going on around him is a role he excels at. So Bill and Ted, The Matrix, and to a lesser extent, Johnny Mnemonic. Beyond that? Yeah.zehydra said:
Not so much.
I thought he was terrible in the Matrix. (though I did like the movie)Ellen of Kitten said:Any role that requires Keanu to not really know what's going on around him is a role he excels at. So Bill and Ted, The Matrix, and to a lesser extent, Johnny Mnemonic. Beyond that? Yeah.zehydra said:
Well he did an awesome job as NEO! So im being optimistic here.
Also i cant remebmer the last movie i saw with him. So it will be nice to see The One in action
Also i cant remebmer the last movie i saw with him. So it will be nice to see The One in action
I thought he made an EXCELLENT confused guy that never knew what was going on. He'd always be my first choice for that particular role.zehydra said:I thought he was terrible in the Matrix. (though I did like the movie)Ellen of Kitten said:Any role that requires Keanu to not really know what's going on around him is a role he excels at. So Bill and Ted, The Matrix, and to a lesser extent, Johnny Mnemonic. Beyond that? Yeah.zehydra said:
but he couldn't deliver the lines well, to me, he sounded like a guy who was trying to act like a confused guy.Ellen of Kitten said:I thought he made an EXCELLENT confused guy that never knew what was going on. He'd always be my first choice for that particular role.zehydra said:I thought he was terrible in the Matrix. (though I did like the movie)Ellen of Kitten said:Any role that requires Keanu to not really know what's going on around him is a role he excels at. So Bill and Ted, The Matrix, and to a lesser extent, Johnny Mnemonic. Beyond that? Yeah.zehydra said:
I saw this movie when I was a kid, even then I knew it was something special. But of course hollywood dedicated to ruining anything good threw a dart at their wall filled with "Things to Remake" and it landed on Akira.Ellen of Kitten said:
Seriously, if anyone goes to see this and support it in theaters you might be the working with the devil. Or Constantine, see what I did thar?
...Thank you for the information. I think my heart just broke right now though.Arslan Galeyev said:
I'll look up the interview now, haha.
I would totally ask him if I was in charge but unfortuantly he's not well known mainstream wise as won't be picked because he's an unknown in what hollywood wants as their next blockbusterThedek said:
These days I can't really imagine Keanu Reeves yelling anything. Or, for that matter, expressing an emotion.Tom Goldman said:
It's like he was so desperate to get away from happy-go-lucky Ted Logan that he seared out the portion of his brain that feels things other than bewilderment.
I really hope he gets it. That would push this mess into the realm of straight-up satire and at least give us a movie worth laughing at instead of just being incredibly rage inducing. Either way, it's almost certain this project will succeed in misinforming a decent portion of the American public as to what Akira is actually about (in the same way most of them think Frankenstein is about a lumbering, retarded green man), as they seem to have jettisoned the major themes and most of the plot.
So film criticism (I mean real film criticism, not the shit you see in newspapers or on review sites) is "fanwankery" now? Did it ever occur to you that there's more than one major event in Japanese history and that the tradition of the apocalyptic mode in Japanese literature is far older than World War 2? I don't even really care about anime, but if that's all you got out of Akira, or even out of that quote, then you missed just about every major theme in the film and may have problems with your basic reading comprehension. What, pray tell, do you find so objectionable in the idea that the teenage boy going gradually crazy with his newfound power and turning into a monster in his effort to separate himself from social groups and establish a unique identity may have been a metaphor for adolescence? Even ignoring the subtler themes (may of which the original film left out, anyway) and the significant early cyberpunk influences, that's about as blatant as you can get. My chief complaint with this proposed re-imagining is that making the characters older completely alters the central relationship dynamic which drives the film, meaning they might just as well call it something else at this point.OutrageousEmu said:
I like how people are devasted by this news as though Akira was this amazing piece of revolutionary fiction.
News flash: Akira, while not horrible, is wildly overrated at best. There's very little to "ruin."
News flash: Akira, while not horrible, is wildly overrated at best. There's very little to "ruin."
Mr. Sulu, if you please:
The Advocate: Were you surprised to find out Warner Bros. is courting white leading men for roles in the adaptation of Akira?
George Takei: It?s not a surprise because that?s been a Hollywood tradition. For example, when I was very young, I read Pearl Buck?s epic novel of China, The Good Earth. And that film, all of the principal major roles were cast with Caucasians. As a matter of fact, Luise Rainer, who played the wife, won an Oscar for that. Paul Muni was her husband. It?s an old Hollywood tradition that we?ve always been battling, not just Hollywood but Broadway too, if you remember Miss Saigon and the furor over that. So, no, I really wasn?t surprised, but the audience has changed now, and I?m surprised Warner Bros. is not keeping up with the audience. The manga and anime phenomenon is mostly white in this country. It originated in Japan, and, of course, it has a huge Asian fan following. But it?s the multi-ethnic Americans who are fans of Akira and manga. The idea of buying the rights to do that and in fact change it seems rather pointless. If they?re going to do that, why don?t they do something original, because what they do is offend Asians, number 1; number 2, they offend the fans. The same thing happened with M. Night Shyamalan. He cast his project [The Last Airbender] with non-Asians and it?s an Asian story, and the film flopped. I should think that they would learn from that, but I guess big studios go by rote, and the tradition in Hollywood has always been to buy a project, change it completely and flop with it. I think it?s pointless, so I thought I would save Warner Bros. a bit of failure by warning them of what will most likely happen if they continue in that vein.
tl;dr: nobody in Hollywood gives a shit about whether the actor is a good fit (hence famous white actors), just whether they'll bring money.
Source link, if you're interested: http://www.advocate.com/News/News_Features/Takei_to_WB_Do_The_Right_Thing/
The Advocate: Were you surprised to find out Warner Bros. is courting white leading men for roles in the adaptation of Akira?
George Takei: It?s not a surprise because that?s been a Hollywood tradition. For example, when I was very young, I read Pearl Buck?s epic novel of China, The Good Earth. And that film, all of the principal major roles were cast with Caucasians. As a matter of fact, Luise Rainer, who played the wife, won an Oscar for that. Paul Muni was her husband. It?s an old Hollywood tradition that we?ve always been battling, not just Hollywood but Broadway too, if you remember Miss Saigon and the furor over that. So, no, I really wasn?t surprised, but the audience has changed now, and I?m surprised Warner Bros. is not keeping up with the audience. The manga and anime phenomenon is mostly white in this country. It originated in Japan, and, of course, it has a huge Asian fan following. But it?s the multi-ethnic Americans who are fans of Akira and manga. The idea of buying the rights to do that and in fact change it seems rather pointless. If they?re going to do that, why don?t they do something original, because what they do is offend Asians, number 1; number 2, they offend the fans. The same thing happened with M. Night Shyamalan. He cast his project [The Last Airbender] with non-Asians and it?s an Asian story, and the film flopped. I should think that they would learn from that, but I guess big studios go by rote, and the tradition in Hollywood has always been to buy a project, change it completely and flop with it. I think it?s pointless, so I thought I would save Warner Bros. a bit of failure by warning them of what will most likely happen if they continue in that vein.
tl;dr: nobody in Hollywood gives a shit about whether the actor is a good fit (hence famous white actors), just whether they'll bring money.
Source link, if you're interested: http://www.advocate.com/News/News_Features/Takei_to_WB_Do_The_Right_Thing/