{"id":3677,"date":"2011-05-17T23:09:48","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T03:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=3677"},"modified":"2011-05-17T23:09:48","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T03:09:48","slug":"keanu-reeves-passes-on-akira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/keanu-reeves-passes-on-akira\/","title":{"rendered":"Keanu Reeves Passes on AKIRA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/geektyrant.com\/storage\/post-images-2011\/keanureeves-akira.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1305664294397\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Keanu Reeves<\/strong> has decided to pass on the role in <strong><em>Akira<\/em><\/strong> that he was in talks for two weeks ago. Albert Hughes is directing the live-action adaptation. It was reported earlier that Reeves was up for the role of Kaneda, a member of a biker gang in a cyberpunk dystopia.<\/p>\n<p>Warner Bros. recently responded to allegations that the film was in trouble by saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Production on &#8216;Akira&#8217; has not halted or been shut down as the film  has not yet been greenlit and is still very much in the development  stage. The exploratory process is crucial to a project of this  magnitude, and we will continue to sculpt our approach to making the  best possible film.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>47 Ronin<\/em><\/strong> is the next film for Reeves, which arrives in\u00a0\u00a0theaters on November 21, 2012. Then fans will be treated to another <strong><em>Bill &amp; Ted <\/em><\/strong>film, which Reeves is attached to return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keanu Reeves has decided to pass on the role in Akira that he was in talks for two<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3678,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677\/revisions\/3678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}