Akira revolves around a young adult, Tetsuo Shima, who acquires telekinetic superpowers in a motorcycle crash. Chronicle revolves around teenage Andrew Detmer, who acquires telekinetic superpowers ...

Akira is everywhere. Watch a modern Hollywood blockbuster and chances are you’ll see a reference to Katsuhiro Otomo’s 1988 anime masterpiece, probably in the form of the iconic “Akira ...

And like Akira, Tetsuo ultimately loses himself to the technological revolution, using inorganic material to create a new, devastating body that ultimately grows to terrifying sizes in the film ...

Akira’s monstrous character Tetsuo is a youngster who finds horrific forces mutating his body. Peter Parker shoots out embarrassing strands of web-goo, but Tetsuo’s whole body engorges into a ...

The story is, in part, an allegory for the fallout from the nuclear bombs dropped by the United States during World War II — where Akira represents the bomb and Tetsuo is the dreaded next calamity.

The big question now is who will play Tetsuo, the young man whose latent powers will release the powerful being known as Akira. Warners wants to have the question answered before Thanksgiving ...