marvel who may be playing Tetsuo Shima in the live activity remake of Greco-Roman manga and anime Akira ? The answer is n’t Joseph Gordon Levitt , subsister of shitty alien comedy 3rd Rock From The Sun and soon - to - be Cobra Commander in the upcoming Gb Joe movie . Well , not yet , anyway . Levitt , who ’s won critical praise for his roles in moving picture like Brick and The Lookout , has long been rumored to be take the master role in the live legal action variant of Katsuhiro Otomo ’s Greco-Roman 1980s story of psychical teenage remiss motorcycle gangs and far-flung demolition … but he ’s not uncoerced to take on anything yet , as he explained to MTV ’s Splash Page web log when ask about his take the function :
I bed the film ‘ Akira . ’ I still have yet to read the manga , but that ’s really just a hearsay . They do n’t have a script or anything .
So , wait . Was that a non - denial denial ? He did n’t say that he was n’t being considered or in talks , after all . And how would he know that they did n’t have a book if he was n’t involved in some agency … ? We ’re enjoin give it until he hits it heavy as Cobra Commander in next yr ’s big toy pic , and then we ’ll see that he ’s agreed . Joseph Gordon Levitt Denies ‘ Akira ’ liaison … For Now[MTV Splash Page ]
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