MTV.COM recently sat down with Keanu Reeves to discuss his newest project
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee. It was during this discussion that the subject of
Cowboy Bebop came up. Here is what Reeves had to say:
"There's a draft of the script, but the writer did such a great job [that] in order to make the movie, you would need half a billion dollars," Reeves stated.
It seems that as great as this adaptation of the anime series is, there is still the bottom line for the studio, Fox, to think about.
"So the studio went, 'This movie is fantastic and it would cost half a billion dollars so he's doing a rewrite."
He went on to say:
"The only challenge was to make a satisfying western narrative out of the kind of storytelling that happens. There's a great draft, so we're just trying to pull it back a little bit now."
One of the big titles in anime,
Cowboy Bebop is set in a time where "astral gates" make interstellar travel possible. Humanity, decimated by a lunar explosion resulting from a gate accident, spread out across the solar system, as did crime, which gave rise to the use of bounty hunters.
Reeves would play Spike Spiegel, a bounty hunter and former member of a crime syndicate. Spiegel, along with Jet Black, a fellow bounty hunter and former cop, are the two pilots of the spaceship Bebop.
The show, which first aired on Tokyo TV and satcaster Wowow during the late 1990s, was strongly influenced by American music, even featuring action sequences -- both space battles and mano a mano -- timed to U.S. melodies.
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He'll just need to loosen up and not be so serious.
Cuz Spike's a jokester and a smart-ass.
Brody couldn't do it either - he's too mellow, doesn't have the intensity/stoicism mix necessary.
James Franco might be able to pull it off... then again he might not. It would depend a good bit upon his fighting skills, which I know little about.
Hartnett would be a good fit I think, though perhaps not perfect.
My top vote by far though would be Clive Owen. He's got the look, the attitude, and at least has the potential for the moves. The only problem is making him look young enough. If they can pull that off, I say he's the clear winner. But hey, thaz me.
Who would you pick?
Of course, im not implying that it should be an asian actor, but that Keanu simply could not perform this role to it's fullest potential. His fighting is slightly above average at best and his acting isn't all that great either.
And it's also worth noting that his voice couldn't even live up to Steven Blum's vocal performance. I just cannot imagine Keanu's voice as Spike. In fact, I don't even want to.
Come on, Adrian Brody IS Spike Speigel.
A writer writes a screenplay that he knows will cost a 500million to make but still sends it off, hoping it gets produced?
Sorry the whole concept seems bogus and with the notable fact that Keanu isn't even attached to the project, there seems no reason for KR to get first glances at the screenplay.
It just seems odd and there is just something i don't know iffy about this article