Never Let Me Go

The story revolves around a trio who grew up in a boarding school with no contact or knowledge of the outside world until they discover they are clones grown for the sole purpose of organ donation.

Who Will Play Kanada and Tetsuo in ‘Akira’?

Deadline is reporting that the script for the Warner Bros/Legendary Pictures live action adaptation of anime artist Katsuhiro Otomo’s 6-volume graphic novel Akira has been sent to an impressive short list of actors.

The picture is finally taking shape for an August start, following the delivery of a rewrite by Steve Kloves that has director Albert Hughes and the studio brass excited.

The story takes place in the rebuilt New Manhattan where a leader of a biker gang saves his friend from a medical experiment.

There are two major roles, with the site reporting that for “Tetsuo,” Robert Pattinson, Andrew Garfield and James McAvoy have been given the new script. For the role of “Kaneda,” the script has been given to Garrett Hedlund, Michael Fassbender, Chris Pine, Justin Timberlake and Joaquin Phoenix.

The intention has been to make 2 films, each covering 3 books in the series. Akira was first adapted for the screen in 1988.
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Red Riding (limited)

Adapted from David Peace’s novel, the trilogy is based on the six-year police investigation of Peter William Suttcliffe, aka “the Yorkshire Ripper,” who killed 12 women in Northern England in the 1970s. The three pics will be released separately and will be directed by three different helmers: Julian Jarrold, James Marsh and Anand Tucker.