Twitch says
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This is the first sensible casting choice made for the movie. He looks like he'd be perfect for the part.
Cool.
Now we just need to cast Tony Jaa as Tetsuo, Joon Lee as Kaneda, and make a few other wise choices (at least 1 of which should be Rain) and every1 will be happy.