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Leonardo DiCaprio will star in a live-action adaption of Anime classic Akira.

Ruairi Robinson has been hired to direct what would ideally be a two-part epic, according to The Hollywood Reporter. DiCaprio will produce the movie.

Akira originated in 1988 as a manga and then as an animated film co-written and directed by Katsuhiro Otomo. The story was set in a neon-lit futuristic post-nuclear war "New Tokyo" in 2019 where a teen biker gang member is subjected to a government experiment which unleashes his latent powers.

The film is tentatively scheduled for a release in the summer of 2009.

They're at it again. And movie lovers should be grateful.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese are teaming up for their fourth film together, with Variety reporting the latest to be called Shutter island.

The drama is set in 1954, with DiCaprio in final talks to play U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels. He's investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island.

Production for the movie begins in March 2008.

Previously, DiCaprio and Scorsese have worked together on Gangs of New York, The Aviator and The Departed.