After all the years of rumours it seems the live-action remake of anime smash Akira is finally getting the go ahead, with Warner Bros. backing the project.

Those who haꦿve longed for a big Hollywood reimagining of the dayglo wor🅺ld of Neo-Tokyo have finally got their wish.

Well, sort of. It seems🥀 the studio is setting the budget at around $90m, which (it sounds crazy to say) is modest by today's standards.

Spanish director Jaume Collet-Serra ( Orphan , Unknown ) will take the helm on a shoot that's expected to start in February or March 2012🐓.

Warner Bros. and Collet-Serra have apparently already decided their first casting choice: Tron Legacy 's Garrett Hedlund.

Both are said to be "keen" on him and with🔴 the movie now greenlit expect to sign him u🌳p.

There's no word on which of the two male leads he'd play yet - biker Kaneda or hඣis friend Tetsu🥂o.

However, if Warner Bros. is picking Hedlund for the role of Kaneda (as we suspect it is), TF 's casting choice for Tetsuo is betweenꦬ Anton Yelchin or Ezra Miller. Discuss.