{"id":17146,"date":"2011-11-03T21:04:23","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T02:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=17146"},"modified":"2011-11-03T21:04:23","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T02:04:23","slug":"garrett-hedlund-offered-lead-for-akira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/03\/garrett-hedlund-offered-lead-for-akira\/","title":{"rendered":"Garrett Hedlund Offered Lead For AKIRA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/GarrettHudland.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17148\" title=\"GarrettHudland\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/GarrettHudland.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>When Warner Brothers finally <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/20\/live-action-akira-finally-gets-greenlight-from-warner-brothers\/\" target=\"_blank\">gave a greenlight<\/a> to their long in development, live action adaption of the classic anime film <strong>Akira<\/strong>, rumor began to swirl that <strong>TRON: Legacy<\/strong>&#8216;s Garrett Hedlund was a frontrunner for the lead role of Kaneda. Those rumors have turned out to be true as <em>Variety<\/em> is reporting that the actor has been given an offer to appear in the film.<\/p>\n<p>Much like he did in TRON: Legacy, if Hedlund takes the role, he&#8217;ll once again be wearing a leather jacket and riding a motorcycle but this time he&#8217;ll be fighting to save his friend from a military experiment designed to amplify his latent psychic powers for use as a weapon. He would be joining Gary Oldman and Helena Bonham Carter who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/24\/gary-oldman-and-helena-bonham-carter-offered-roles-in-live-action-akira\/\" target=\"_blank\">have already joine<\/a>d the cast.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Akira<\/strong> has been in development so long that the likes of Keanu Reeves, Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio and James Franco have all had their names linked to the Kaneda role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The actor has been offered the lead in the live-action adaption of the classic anime.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/03\/garrett-hedlund-offered-lead-for-akira\/\" title=\"Garrett Hedlund Offered Lead For AKIRA\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[886,4482],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-akira","8":"tag-garrtt-hedlund"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17146"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=17146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}