All You Need Is...Casting Rumors?

By Nick Mamatas November 11, 2010

Hollywood scuttlebutt is that Ryan Gosling will be offered the lead role in the movie version of All You Need Is KILL. Clearly, the film is going to be "American" rather than following the Japanese-international theme of Sakurazaka's novel, but other than that, what do you think?



Speaking purely for myself as a human being and not an editor or employee of anyone...yeah, I think I would very much enjoy watching this guy die a dozen times in one movie.

The same article from Beyond Hollywood also talks about Zac Efron perhaps being offered the lead role in Akira, based on the first anime pretty much anyone my age ever saw subtitled rather than poorly dubbed. I was excited at Efron's picture:



I mean, look:



He's already got the haircut!