Keanu Reeves Stars In Cowboy Bebop?

By Josh Tyler: 2008-07-31 03:41:56

Cowboy Bebop movie rumors are nothing new. We’ve heard for years now that Hollywood is making a live action version of the popular anime cartoon. Nothing ever happens with it. The latest round of Bebop rumors seem a little more solid though. Last month word started circulating around that 20th Century Fox was finally making it happen, and now the guys over at FirstShowing.net claim to know who is starring in it.

Their source tells them that Keanu Reeves is attached to play the lead in the Cowboy Bebop movie, as a character named Spike. What’s more he’s been attached to the project for more than 8 months. That’s either good or bad, depending on how you look at it. I tend to look at it as bad, since normally a studio who is serious about making a movie like this would run right out and announce a big casting score like that. Fox meanwhile, still hasn’t even officially announced that they’re making the movie, much less that they have Keanu Reeves starring in it.

Don’t know what the hell this Cowboy Bebop thing is? Well that’s because it’s anime and you’re into things like, oh I don’t know, movies about three-dimensional people with a normal eye to face ratio. Me too, so rather than trying to bumble my way through an explanation, here’s what Wikipedia has to say about it: “In the year 2071 AD, the crew of the spaceship Bebop travel the solar system trying to apprehend bounties. Nation-states have collapsed, and various races and peoples live throughout the solar system. In the slang of the era, "Cowboys" are bounty hunters. Most episodes revolve around a specific bounty, but the show often shares its focus with the pasts each of the four main characters and of more general past events, which are revealed and brought together as the series progresses.”

Hey I like outer space! But I hate anime. Worlds… colliding.

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jake Says:
July 31st, 2008 at 13:28
you'd like Cowboy Bebop ... trust me. great series.

Dalton Says:
July 31st, 2008 at 16:00
Yeah its very different from alot of the anime junk thats out there.

Daniel Says:
August 1st, 2008 at 02:33
"movies about three-dimensional people with a normal eye to face ratio."

You have an image right there of the main character, what's wrong with the eye to face ratio? Nothing. And besides, even just with animation, it's not like Disney or Pixar is renowned for realistic character designs, are they?

And Cowboy Bebop has more three-dimensional characters then most television dramas these days, figuratively speaking. It's a fantastic show that anyone can enjoy, even if they hate anime, which I'm generally not a fan of either. I would strongly reccommend it to anyone. I'm being serious, it's only 26 episodes, it's really worth your time.

The movie will probably be terrible though. Sure, he's a big name actor, but he sucks. He just plain sucks.

Jen Says:
August 5th, 2008 at 02:37
Keanu??? No!!!!!!!!!!!

At least cast someone who's 20s!
Keanu is too old to play Spiky!

dan Says:
August 10th, 2008 at 04:30
I think Keanu might be ok for the part. look at the picture. spike is in his young to mid 30s really. listen to the voice. the show was about how he wasted his young life with julia, and now he wastes his life as a bounty hunter, and has a cool colected personality, but most of all he kicks ass and keanu does just that.

Ashley Says:
August 13th, 2008 at 15:49
Spike is 27 when the series takes place, and I wouldn't call rounding up criminals a waste of life.

What I'm really wondering though, is whose playing Faye? Ed? Jet?
And to a lesser extent: Julia, Viscious, Ein, and the people on Big Shot.

I wonder if Julia and Viscious will even be in the movie?

I bet they'll screw up the movie cause Keanu always looks like a dead fish, no passion whatsoever. They'll probably also add in some bad romance, which would kill me.

If the movie is being made, they should float the actors by the fans first, who probably have a better understanding of the characters than the casting director.

Also, Spike better have fluffy, green hair. Faye should have dark purple hair, and it had better be awsome. Otherwise, it shouldn't be shown.

sipon023 Says:
September 11th, 2008 at 01:34
u son of a bitch.... animes d best thing since ur mothas face

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