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Given the Live action movie is unpreventable.

What actors would be able to screw the movie up the least.


My picks are
Johnny Depp playing Tetsuo
Add a little violent intent and the crazy man routine would work great i think.

Brad Pitt as Kaneda.
played in a Similar as he did in fight club.

I would use unknown Japanese actors.

that would be best. but given Hollywood unlikely

Bah, I'll just have to stick to the original I guess. I never got used to the English dubbing it always seemed so forced. But fuck me I can't find the Japanese version with English sub anywhere.

Life's a bitch I guess.

It's on the 2001 release. The also completely redid the dub, on account of the first one being absolute dreck.

Bah, I'll just have to stick to the original I guess. I never got used to the English dubbing it always seemed so forced. But fuck me I can't find the Japanese version with English sub anywhere.

Life's a bitch I guess.

i got a DVD with Sub and the pill option that translates all the signs and graffiti you see.

Must kill..... must killl... ~Lumbers towards greed and death with hatchet and machette~

Two of the worst actors in the world. Ew.

Must kill..... must killl... ~Lumbers towards greed and death with hatchet and machette~

Two of the worst actors in the world. Ew.

I don't know the planned DiCaprio and bloom are the two worst actors in the world.

It's on the 2001 release. The also completely redid the dub, on account of the first one being absolute dreck.
Aw, but Cam Clarke! Cam Clarke! He's brilliant because he's so bad; his voice is an iconic representation of cheesy international cartoon translations.

Bah, I'll just have to stick to the original I guess. I never got used to the English dubbing it always seemed so forced. But fuck me I can't find the Japanese version with English sub anywhere.

Life's a bitch I guess.

http://tokyotosho.com/search.php?terms=akira

Try the third link.

I don't know the planned DiCaprio and bloom are the two worst actors in the world.

Two of the worst yes, not the worst. That title is reserved for some godawful actors. But Depp and Pitt are equal too or worse then DiCaprio and Bloom. They need to find some good actors.. that Tom Welling guy looks the part. But couldn't do a good rendition of the role in my mind. There are a few actors I would consider for the movie. But there names escape me at the moment.

Two of the worst yes, not the worst. That title is reserved for some godawful actors. But Depp and Pitt are equal too or worse then DiCaprio and Bloom. They need to find some good actors.. that Tom Welling guy looks the part. But couldn't do a good rendition of the role in my mind. There are a few actors I would consider for the movie. But there names escape me at the moment.

Depp is actually a decent actor.
Also, anyone cast in a Hollywood version of Akira will not doubt make it god awful. The effects will be great, but everything else will just suck.

Any non-asian actors would be absurd choices for this movie, unless they intend to butcher it completely, which is probably the case. Depp and Pitt are, in addition, at least twenty years too old for the part. If we're ignoring age, though, and if they have to be caucasian, I'll say Steve Buscemi for Tetsuo and maybe Guy Ritchie for Kaneda, based mostly on his excellent performance in The Proposition. If the bastards involved with this project had a soul, I'd say my preferences would be Taro Yamamoto for Kaneda and the guy who played Kazuo Kiriyama in Battle Royale for Tetsuo. They both played characters not so different from Tetsuo and Kaneda in the aforementioned film. While I'm at it, I nominate Beat Takeshi for the role of Colonel Shikishima, because Beat Takeshi rules.

Given the Live action movie is unpreventable.

What actors would be able to screw the movie up the least.
Hulk Hogan for all the male parts, Lindsay Lohan for all of the female parts.

Well, IMDB has Leonardo DiCaprio as rumored (infact all the cast listed is marked rumored).

I would, however, go with late teen/early 20 unknowns for the two leads and put the stars in supporting roles. say... (going by memory, so sorry for the lack of names for the characters)
Samual Jackson as the General in charge of the project,
Lucy Liu as one of the scientists
Linda Hunt as the female subject
etc...

Hulk Hogan for all the male parts, Lindsay Lohan for all of the female parts.
Gary Coleman for all the altered humanoid child parts.

Also, Sam Jackson has to be in the movie. It's a rule. Sam Jackson must now be in every movie because he is just that awesome.

Also, Sam Jackson has to be in the movie. It's a rule. Sam Jackson must now be in every movie because he is just that awesome.
Samuel L Jackson as Kaneda? Then you've gotta have Hayden Christensen as Tetsuo. There must be nobody who doesn't want to see Mace Windu blast Anakin Skywalker's arm off with a giant frikkin' laser beam.

Windu has some serious revenge to eek out on that emo loser.

Tetsuo should be played by William Shatner. I feel very strongly about this.

Samuel L Jackson as Kaneda? Then you've gotta have Hayden Christensen as Tetsuo. There must be nobody who doesn't want to see Mace Windu blast Anakin Skywalker's arm off with a giant frikkin' laser beam.

Man Kaneda isn't the guy who severs Tetsuo's arm.

Man Kaneda isn't the guy who severs Tetsuo's arm.
Really? It's been a while since I saw it, so you'll have to forgive me, but I seem to recall two facts - Kaneda has a huge frikkin' laser and Tetsuo gets his arm blown off by a huge frikkin' laser. Are there other huge frikkin' lasers?

(Yes, I do have to use "frikkin' laser" as a single phrase. Sorry.)

Really? It's been a while since I saw it, so you'll have to forgive me, but I seem to recall two facts - Kaneda has a huge frikkin' laser and Tetsuo gets his arm blown off by a huge frikkin' laser. Are there other huge frikkin' lasers?

(Yes, I do have to use "frikkin' laser" as a single phrase. Sorry.)

Kaneda picks up the laser from the decimated military. so yes, there were other huge frikkin lasers... and this is not counting the satelite weapon that they used on Tetsuo.

You don't have to go and see it if you don't want to :)