Happy Thursday! Also in today’s edition of The Broadsheet: Behold the Matt Damon/John Krasinski braintrust… Mark Romanek may be a surprising heir to Ron Howard… More sad news about Transformers 4 … and more.
The long-gestating live-action adaptation of the popular manga and anime tale Akira has been resuscitated at Warner Bros. months after Albert Hughes dropped out of the director’s chair . Is this good news for diehard fans of Katsuhiro Otomo’s cyberpunk saga? What if the front runner to play Kaneda is Tron: Legacy ‘s Garrett Hedlund ?