Warner Brothers has shut down Akira's production offices in Vancouver over "casting and budgetary issues", reports If you haven't been following our constant kvetching about the live-action Akira movie, here's a quick summary of what happened, which we recommend reading while listening to this:The Hughes Brothers were originally attached to adapt books one through six as two movies with a budget of $230 million.

Warner Brothers and Jaume Collet-Serra are still casting the Americanized, $90 million adaptation of Akira, and we have a synopsis of the plot which went out with a casting call.

Last month Warner and director Jaume Collet-Serra were pursuing Gary Oldman to be best friends with because he's awesome to play The Colonel in Akira.

Casting of the Warner Brothers and Jaume Collet-Serra (Orphan, Unknown) adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira is underway, and we're getting so excited about this recent development that we can't stop biting our lips.

It was only last week we learned TRON: Legacy star (it seems odd typing "star" for people I just heard about) Garret Hedlund was who Warner Brothers and director Jaume Collet-Serra (Orphan, Unknown) want to play Kaneda in the just-greenlit Akira.

"TETSUOOOO.

Warner is reportedly happy with Steve Kloves' (who wrote seven of the Harry Potter scripts) rewrite of the Akira script and have sent it out to their top choices to play Tetsuo and Kaneda.

My version of Photoshop has decided today that Asian kids love Garret Hedlund featurettes.

[Via]So, I'm not too sure if anyone has heard about this upcoming movie called TRON:Legacy, set to release on December 17th, but I think it's about high school techno raves or something -possibly it's got that guy from Facebook in it, maybe- maybe not.