Oh boy, I really hope that this is just some kind of late April Fool’s joke. ANN reports in reference to Nikkan Sports (must be a great source for movie related news) that the members of the five-headed J-Pop boygroup SMAP (Sports Music Assemble People) are considered to be casted as the main leads in the live-action adaptation of Yoshiaki Kawajiri’s anime classic Ninja Scroll. Leonardo DiCaprio, whose production company Appian Way has acquainted the rights last autumn has outed himself as a big fans of Japanese animation promised “not to make the movie until the script is in the right shape”. What noble words…
SMAP is one of the biggest Japanese boygroups and was founded in 1991. All members, Masahiro Nakai, Takuya Kimura, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Goro Inagaki and Shingo Katori have already acted in several tv series and (mostly manga and anime related) films, but I don’t think that they are the right guys for the main job(s). They could serve as canon sword-fodder for a capable Jubei actor for all I care…

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