Keanu Reeves Akira Role - Vince Vaughn for Lay the Favorite?

Movie notes - Will Keanu Reeves take on Akira? Obsesses with Film reveals the actor is reportedly mulling over the role and add that "for the film adaptation of Akira, the setting has changed from the futuristic Neo-Tokyo to a ‘rebuilt’ New Manhatten with the idea of Hollywoodising and watering down the themes and turning it into a PG-13 rated fare aimed at American audiences
See more on the big budget film and the attempts to land Reeves here.

More film role notes...Vince Vaughn is reportedly in talks to join the cast of new movie Lay the Favorite.
According to Variety, the new independent film is being directed by Stephen Frears and stars already lined up to appear in the flick include Rebecca Hall and Bruce Willis
The film is based on the life of professional gambler Beth Raymer and how she started out as a cocktail waitress in Las Vegas but ended up becoming one of the world's best gamblers.

But after falling in love she then starts to re-evaluate her life and re-think the profession she's chosen.

Randall Emmett will be producing along with Anthony Bregman, D.V. DeVincentis and Paul Trijbits and Peter Gethers will executive produce.

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