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Allen and Albert Hughes Take on Another Apocalypse in ‘Akira’
While I enjoyed Book of Eli, the only movie that Allen and Albert Hughes directed that I truly care for is Menace II Society, an urban drama filmed 17 years ago. This is the reason my skin is crawling at the notion that the overrated brothers will be getting behind the camera for Akira, a live-action adaptation of the beloved Manga graphic novel from Katsuhiro Otomo. The script has been penned by Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby and Gary Whitta (who penned Eli) and set in New Manhattan, a metropolis that was rebuilt after being destroyed 31 years earlier. Akira was first adapted as a feature in 1988 as an animated film which Otomo directed. What do you guys think?
Fact: It has been nearly two years since Warner Bros. Pictures acquired the rights with Legendary Pictures from publisher Kodansha and set it up with Andrew Lazar’s Mad Chance with Appian Way’s Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson.
Ryan Gosling (Project Hail Mary) has made no secret of the fact that he’d love to play Ghost Rider in a Marvel Cinematic Universe movie, and it’s now officially happening.
Announced by Marvel out of San Diego Comic-Con tonight, Ryan Gosling will play the iconic Marvel character in a Ghost Rider movie being directed by Shawn Levy!
Expect Ryan Gosling to play Ghost Rider on the big screen in 2028.
Johnny Blaze is of course the most iconic and well-known Ghost Rider, selling his soul to Satan and becoming a supernatural badass. Nicolas Cage brought Blaze to life on screen in both 2007’s Ghost Rider and 2011’s Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, while Gabriel Luna more recently played the Robbie Reyes version of Ghost Rider in the series “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”
Luna was set to star in his own Ghost Rider spinoff series in the wake of that small screen appearance, but that Hulu project ended up being squashed before it ever had a chance.
Fans have been waiting for Ghost Rider to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe for many years now, with Ryan Gosling making it clear that he’d love to bring the character back to life.
That Hollywood dream is coming true. Stay tuned for more as we learn it.
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