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Doing all I can to keep you all posted on Akira, and this is the latest. Garrett Hedlund, the emotionless door from TRON: Legacy is being courted for the role of Kaneda. I'm extremely mixed on Hedlund. I haven't seen Georgia Rule or Country Strong so I can't comment on those films. I have seen him in Death Sentence, and I'll admit, he was fantastic. But then there was TRON: Legacy which was just disappointing. So I'm not sure what we'll get out of him. But I have faith. Here's the official synopsis for Akira, and after the break, check out the news for the Star Trek sequel.
Akira is set in the post-apocalypse Neo-Tokyo of 2019, a vast metropolis built on the ashes of a Tokyo annihilated by an apocalyptic blast of unknown power that triggered World War III. The lives of two streetwise teenage friends, Tetsuo and Kaneda, change forever when dormant paranormal abilities begin to waken in Tetsuo, who becomes a target for a shadowy government operation, a group who will stop at nothing to prevent another catastrophe like that which leveled Tokyo. And at the core of their motivation is a raw, all-consuming fear: a fear of someone — or something — of unthinkably monstrous power known only as… Akira. And Akira is about to rise!
