Zac Efron lands Akira lead
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They are aware that Akira is cult, action adult-content anime and includes no singing bunnies or dancing frogs, right?
Zac Efron, best known as the star of Disney's High School Musical, has been offered the lead in the live-action remake of Akira, the story of a post-apocalyptic motorcycle gang who fall victim to a government conspiracy.
Akira is is widely regarded as a landmark of anime and part of the cult canon. Efron took his vanilla beginnings in HSM and the Disney machine, and turned them into milquetoast middles in titles like 17 Again and Charlie St. Cloud. This bodes ill for his ability to bring weight and veritas to the role of a post-apocalyptic motorcycle gang leader. On the other hand, he had some good moments as Link Larkin in the Hairspray remake, and a couple of funny turns on Robot Chicken. Maybe this could be the role that helps him break out of chisel-jawed, middle-of-the-road, boring-role typecasting?
Or maybe Akira, one of the primary cult source materials for fans of anime and of manga, was doomed from the first decision: to change the setting from Neo-Tokyo to Neo-Manhattan.
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