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Added by G-Man on March 23, 2009

A lot of people voiced their concern over Keanu Reeves desire to make and be in a live action "Cowboy Bebop" movie playing Spike Spiegel. According to Japanator, Sunrise, the anime studio that owns the franchise, recently spoke about the movie.  Apparently Reeves went to Japan twice to meet with Sunrise staff in order to convince them that the movie should be made.  He must have been successful.

Not a whole lot has happened since the movie was officially announced.  Part of the reason is due to negotiations between Sunrise and 20th Century Fox.  Sunrise wants to maintain a decent amount of control in how the movie will turn out.  They have said, "If the script is terrible, the live-action film adaption will not be approved." 

Hopefully they will have some say in case the acting is terrible as well.

Filed under : Spike Spiegel

19 Comments

King Saturn
on March 23, 2009
I dont know... maybe it could work. But I am kind of fearful of Keanu Reeves in action movies as of late... The Day The Earth Stood Still and Constantine werent all that great... but maybe Reeves could make a big comeback with this...

Static Shock is online
on March 23, 2009
LOL. I like that pic. Is that a production still?

Thespirit
on March 23, 2009
believe its from constantine

Feral Nova
on March 23, 2009
I'm wiling to give the dude a chance... but I swear, if it starts to look as bad as Dragonball Evolution does right now, I will never forgive him.

gunswordfist
on March 23, 2009
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! OH SH!T! I didn't even read the article yet. Keanu reeves looks TERRIBLE! If I saw him like that, I'd assume he was a new age of crackhead.

xerox-kitty
on March 23, 2009
It just looks like Keanu Reeves with bad hair... worse than in I Love You To Death :p

G-Man
on March 23, 2009
Static Shock said:
"LOL. I like that pic. Is that a production still?
"
Let's just be clear that the image is not real.

geraldthesloth
on March 23, 2009

G-Man
on March 23, 2009
This says it all:

  




geraldthesloth
on March 23, 2009
G-Man said:
"This says it all:

  



"
HAHAHA

Captain Cascader
on March 23, 2009
I'm actually looking forward to this. I think he'll do fine in the role.

gunswordfist
on March 24, 2009
Captain Cascader said:
"I'm actually looking forward to this. I think he'll do fine in the role."

*backs slowly away from Captain*

Media_Master
on March 26, 2009
Well, he hasn't made a well received film since Matrix, so this could be good.

Fluke-buddha
on June 7, 2009
G-Man said:
Static Shock said: "LOL. I like that pic. Is that a production still?" Let's just be clear that the image ... [more]
Looks like a photoshopped image from COnstantine.

SUNMAN
on June 7, 2009
Its going to suck because Fox butchers movies

Arbitius
on June 7, 2009
the pic looks like he has a crow's nest on his head

Sparda
on June 7, 2009
You know what, I'm going to go ahead and say that Keanu Reeves is a fine actor.

Not "great" (maybe not even particularly "good"), but not "awful". He's not too great with expressions and such, but it's not like you can't tell if he's angry or not or if he's acting in a certain way.

Or maybe my positive bias towards The Replacements and the Matrix is obscuring my judgement.

Korg
on June 7, 2009
Keanu Reeves can play one character really well. It's just any time he tries to do anything else that he fails miserably. A Scanner Darkly and the Matrix were perfect roles for him.

SUNMAN
on June 7, 2009
I like Keanu Reeves as an actor I know he gets a lot of flack cause people say he is like the same character in every movie, but I disagree he is not the most versatile actor but I think he is a good actor. I've like a good amount of his movies.

Still the fact that fox is attached to this just makes me think it is going to suck.


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