After a series of setbacks earlier this year, Warner Bros. re-started prep work on AKIRA, the highly anticipated, English-language, live-action drama based on the manga epic.
Warners confirmed talks with Tron: Legacy lead Garrett Hedlund to play the main role Kaneda two weeks ago and The Hollywood Reporter confirmed today that the studio offered Twilight star Kristen Stewart a leading role in the movie.
Warners reportedly offered Stewart the role of Ky, a woman with special powers working to expose the government's plot to turn orphans into killers with psychic powers.
Jaume Collet-Serra signed on with Warners in July to direct the big budget adaptation of the classic manga Akira after original director Albert Hughes and actor Keanu Reeves exited the project.
In the new script for the film, currently being updated by Steve Kloves, the story shifts from New Tokyo in the graphic novels to New Manhattan where the leader of a biker gang tries to save his best friend from dangerous medical experiments that grant him psychokinetic powers.
Fans, are you hoping Kristen Stewart accepts the offer to join Akira?
Until then, Stewart returns alongside Taylor Lautner and Robert Pattinson for Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 with Bella Swan (Stewart) agreeing to marry Edward (Pattinson) as a condition for him transforming her into a vampire.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 is in theaters Friday.