It was just announced that former KAT-TUN member Akanishi Jin will be making his Hollywood debut through the Hollywood remake of the Japanese movie 47 Ronin. Jin will star alongside Hollywood actor Keanu Reeves and Japanese actors Sanada Hiroyuki, Tadanobu Asano, Kikuchi Rinko, and singer Shibasaki Kou. And as of right now it's set to be released on November 21, 2012. But that's obviously not set in stone. Movies get pushed back and release dates get changed all the time.
This is extremely exciting news for a couple of reasons. Obviously the first one being that Jin will grace theaters worldwide and will get worldwide exposure from this movie. The second reason is this is a Hollywood movie in English. I'm sure most Jin fans, or anyone who reads his twitter, know that his English isn't the best. But since this is a Hollywood movie probably with a big budget, I bet there will be someone on set to help him with his English a bit. Granted it doesn't seem like anyone has been helping Ken Watanabe with his English all that much. But that hasn't hurt his American career in the least bit. And of course the third reason this is great is because of the exposure this will give Jin's American career. Everyone knows that Jin is going to release his first American album. But so far a release date hasn't been announced which means the album is no where near ready. So, that makes me assume that his album will be released late 2011, like November or December, or early 2102, like January or February. Now, a movie being released that late won't give Jin that much promotion for the actual release of his album but it will probably pimp Jin enough to get people interested in his music. Depending how popular the movie is and how well Jin comes off to American audiences. Since Jin is going to be in the movie he will probably be doing some of the promotions. Especially on semi-big late night shows. Since a lot of shows have to settle for secondary actors in the film if they can't book the big names. Like Jimmy Fallon or George Lopez will never get a huge actor who's movie is currently in theaters. But they might get Jin. Also, Jin could possibly get a tie in song. Since he's an American singer, or will be soon, they might pimp his music. Movies always love to feature the actor's music in movies. So, if we're lucky one of his songs will be playing while the credits play.
You also gotta love how the Japanese tabloids were almost right. Back when Jin first decided to take a break from KAT-TUN to do his solo concerts a Japanese tabloid said he was doing so to audition for Pirates of the Caribbean 4. And he would be unable to do KAT-TUN's concert and audition for the movie. Well, it seems that they were half right. They just got the movies mixed up. It also seems like Jin really did leave to audition because it was also said that Jin went and auditioned for the movie on his own. So, to me it seems like he did just that with JE's permission. And once he actually got the role Johnny thought it would be an absolutely perfect idea to have him also debut in the US as a singer. Which is why they didn't announce he would be debuting in America until after his concerts were over, when he was supposed to come back. And not before then, in case he didn't get the part. And if he didn't get the part there would be no reason to have him try to debut in the US. That's just my two sense though. Perhaps I'm just overanalyzing the situation like I always do. XD
Good luck to Jin though. I hope this movie becomes a success. Even though Jin will probably end up getting like 10 lines. XD
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