He’s a long way from Hogwarts. Daniel Radcliffe continues to zig and zag away from his wizardly career beginnings, with Deadline reporting that he has signed on to play American journalist Jake Adelstein in Tokyo Vice, an adaptation of Adelstein’s memoir of covering the crime beat in Tokyo. In the book, Adelstein’s investigative reporting into the dealings of a powerful yakuza Tadamasa Goto, a.k.a. “the John Gotti” of Japan, lands him in hot water in Tokyo’s mob scene. Playwright JT Rogers is adapting the book, with music video director Anthony Handler directing.

Here is a short interview Dan did on the red carpet when he was at the Laurence Olivier Awards. In it he discusses his role in The Cripple of Inishmaan.

Dan is in attendance tonight at the Laurence Olivier Awards. Some photos are in the gallery to view here.

Out magazine have released two video clips of Dan being interviewed and photographed for the March issue of the magazine. The photos from this shoot if you haven’t already seen them can be found here. Dan talks about his gay character in Kill Your Darlings in the video.

Dan has released some photos from his Google+ account of behind the scenes of his film ‘Horns’.

Added over 20 photos of Dan at the Jameson Empire Awards to the gallery.

Empire Hero award has gone to Dan! Congrats to him.

James Watkins, who we saw just a while ago accepting his own award for The Woman In Black, is back onstage to present the Empire Hero award, which recognises someone who we just think is generally pretty ace. Watkins says, “He deserves it for being utterly fearless” for taking the most scrutinised piece of casting of our time in Harry Potter and then delivering over a decade and ten films; tackling the West End stage, “balls out, literally” at 17 in Equus, and doing 345 straight performances on Broadway singing and dancing in How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. “This desire to take risks is why I cast him in Woman In Black,” explains Watkins.

Yes, this year’s recipient is DANIEL RADCLIFFE, who left the Boy Who Lived behind and has already shown some serious range to his work, inbetween bouncing with that insane energy he has. “It’s always embarrassing to see myself, and thanks for the awws at the beginning. Empire’s always been unpatronising of Potter and myself, so thanks for that.” He thanks the directors who are willing to take a chance on him and see him as something other than Potter, and is, as ever, charming and friendly. Some day he’s going to kick a puppy, and we’re going to be there to see it, dagnabbit. No one’s this reliably chipper.

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Added 126 screen caps from the Oscars show of Dan performing and presenting. Take a look in the gallery here.

UPDATE: It looks as if Radcliffe will get his wish: The Hollywood Reporter has the news this morning that the erstwhile boy wizard and latterday ghost-watcher is now in “final negotiations” to get the hump as Igor. Yes, master.

Casting’s not quite underway yet on Fox’s Frankenstein, recently inherited by Paul McGuigan after Shawn Levy’s departure. One actor, however, has already thrown his hat into the ring. Continuing to aim for roles that challenge his public image as a boy wizard, Daniel Radcliffe is apparently keen to join the film – not as Dr. Frankenstein, but as his hunchbacked assistant Igor.

The screenplay by Max Landis (Chronicle) isn’t a straight adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic novel. Not many specifics are yet known, but it’s being talked up as a “sci-fi take” on the material (although Frankenstein arguably has sci-fi aspects in any form) and Landis has made it known that he’s been interested in the history of the Igor character.

You won’t find Igor in Shelley – his origins are in the Universal films, where he’s played by Bela Lugosi and spelt ‘Ygor’ (see above). He starts out in Son Of Frankenstein as a disabled blacksmith, and in Ghost Of Frankenstein has his brain transplanted into the monster. In the popular imagination, Igor is an amalgam of this character and Dwight Frye’s hunchbacked henchmen in Frankenstein and The Bride Of Frankenstein (called Fritz in the former and Karl in the latter). Confused? So was Landis, which is presumably why he’s tried to unravel the knots.

The Wrap has got hold of a description of Igor’s new incarnation, and we’re told he’s “pathologically dirty and dressed in old clowns’ clothing”. Daniel Radcliffe is also currently attached to Horns, Alexandre Aja’s adaptation of Joe Hill’s novel, where the role of Ig will require him to shave his head, paint himself red and wear a dress. So if he ends up in Frankenstein too, he’s got some interesting times ahead…

Frankenstein is on a fast track at Fox, who want to get it going before the bajillion competing projects leave it dead on the operating table. The current job is to finalise the script, after which casting and production will start in earnest.

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