lol one of the early scripts had Kaneda as a bartender and Tetsuo was his brother.
Just to clarify, I am not even mad that this live action movie exists. I just shrug my shoulders and say... "What is the point?"
Half the appeal is the animation/character art and live action just negates that. I'm a dorkish fan of Akira and I probably won't even bother watching this movie in the theaters.
I think WB should have cut it loose and focused all their energy into making Attack on Titan. Make the characters actually interesting and mess with them all you want. For WB this is a damned if you do and damned if you don't kind of movie. It ain't going to make money.