‘Akira’ Movie Update: Kaneda the Bartender and Actual Japanese Person Offered Role
As predicted by George Takei in April, Warner Bros. Pictures seems intent on making its live-action adaptation of AKIRA -- the seminal manga and anime by Katsuhiro Otomo -- as pointless as possible. Takei and other AKIRA fans' pronounced unhappiness with the studio and producer Leonardo DiCaprio's plans to cast the film with non-Asian actors was compounded this week with the release of a plot syno