It’s often difficult to know whether it’s worth reporting that a particular star is wanted for a movie. After all saying a studio or director want Brad Pitt for a film is slightly meaningless, as he’s wanted for pretty much every movie, especially if we don’t know whether Pitt has even the vaguest amount ot interest in the movie.
However both Pitt and Michael Fassbenber are being sought for movies, with Warner eyeing the former for the anime/manga adaptation All You Need Is Kill and and MGM looking at the latter for Robocop. Previously actors such as Chris Pine, Keanu Reeves, Tom Cruise, and Johnny Depp have been mentioned as possible candidates to star in the Robocop redo, but now with director Jose Padilha installed, he revealed on the Brazilian TV show Globonews that Fassbender is his preferred choice. This will porbably come as news to the actor, as it doesn’t appear he’s been officially approached about the movie yet.
Warner meanwhile is following its desire to take anime/mange properties and try to put someone much older than the original main character in the Hollywood film version. A few months ago they were trying to add at least a couple of decades to the age of the lead character in Akira (that didn’t work out and since then the director has changed, the budget altered and the lead is likely to get younger), and now they want to do it with All You Need Is Kill.
The slighly videogame inspired All You Need Is Kill is based on the Japanese Manga by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, which centres on a soldier killed in battle while fighting an intergalactic alien war. Instead of dying, he find himself jumping back 18 hours into the past to fight all over again – and this keeps on happening, Groundhog Day-style. Pitt has been offered the lead, although he’s a good 25-years-older than the leader in the original tale.
However with Mr & Mrs Smith helmer Doug Liman directing, there is a chance Pitt will sign on, but we’ll have to wait and see.