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Amber Heard (Drive Angry) has been chosen to play the female lead in Motor City. Heard will star opposite Dominic Cooper (The Devil’s Double) in the Dark Castle action-thriller. Motor City centres on a man (Cooper) who, after being released from prison, goes on a revenge mission, hunting down the people who framed him. Albert [...]
Here’s something you don’t read about every day: An almost silent action film with but a single line of dialogue. After deciding to exit from directing the upcoming Akira remake, Albert Hughes is now looking to make Motor City instead for Warner Bros., with Chris Evans being offered the lead, Collider report. Chad St. John’s [...]
Jaume Collet-Serra, director of this year’s well received Unknown, has signed on to direct the long-awaited remake of the 1980s Japanese manga, Akira, Variety report. Akira, which has already been adapted as an anime back in 1988, is now to be transformed into a live-action film for Warner Bros., a project that’s been in development [...]
Sky Movies are reporting that Andrew Garfield, Robert Pattinson, and James McAvoy are on the shortlist for one of the lead roles, Tetsuo Shima, in the forthcoming live-action Akira movie, based on the Japanese manga of the same name. The possibility of a live-action version of Akira, which was turned into the cult sensation animated [...]
Zac Efron’s pursuit of credibility could take him to World War III damaged Neo-Tokyo, says Slash Film. With Me and Orson Welles and The Life and Death of Charlie St. Cloud demonstrating the High School Musical star’s acting chops to much acclaim, the news that the young heartthrob might star in a live action remake of Akira [...]
*Here’s another post from our reader, James….* Some films are plain good entertainment, some epic, some funny, some awful. But occasionally a film comes along completely out of leftfield which takes you completely by surprise. I had no idea about what I was letting about myself in for when I bought my ticket for ‘The [...]
A new behind the scenes featurette for The Book of Eli has been released over on Yahoo Movies. The Book of Eli stars Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, Ray Stevenson, Michael Gambon, Evan Jones, Jennifer Beals and is directed by Allen Hughes and Albert Hughes. This new featurette, Denzel Washington talks about the preparation [...]
