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Cowboy Bebop Movie to Star Reeves "Whoa.." (NVGR)
Teen Idol | 3:36 AM on 01.17.2009 17 comments


After years of rumors it is finally official, Variety has reported that Keanu Reeves (The Matrix) has indeed signed up to take on the role of Spike Spiegel on 20th Century Fox's live action film adaptation of the hit anime series, Cowboy Bebop.

Cowboy Bebop follows a team of bounty hunters, (”Cowboys” as their known,) who coast the cosmos aboard their spaceship, Bebop, tracking down the universe’s worst criminals and collecting the bounty on their heads. The plot thickens when the team’s strong but silent leader, Spike (Reeves) begins to run across his old buddies from a nefarious crime syndicate he used to belong to. The only thing standing in the gangsters’ way? Spike, and the crew of the Bebop.

My main problem with this entire idea is Keanu Reeves himself. As much as I hate to admit it, Keanu does have a striking resemblance to Spike Spiegel, however the attitude and personality is just not there. Although Spike is serious in the anime series alot of the time, he is also very humorous and has a "cool" but tough style. Keanu we all know is stiff and has no apparent emotion in his acting. He's kind of like Steven Segal without the martial arts. Film casting calls should really stop worrying about the physical appearance in an actor and remember that the actual acting is more important than looking the part.



My second problem with this entire plan is that it's already looking like a disaster. Most will say I should keep an open mind, however everybody should know that 20th Century Fox is also responsible for that horrendous looking abomination Dragonball Evolutions live action that has already sent the anime community running for the hills with there "Dragonballs" in hand. Let's also not forget about that upcoming Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li film (Balrog shooting a bazooka-*sob*). Seems to me like Hollywood doesn't only have its eye on Horror remakes anymore, but is also targeting the anime universe as well.

As of right now Erwin Stoff is producing. Stoff's resume consists of The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008), Street Kings, A Scanner Darkly, and Constantine. Notice anything those films all have in common? Keanu Reeves was leading in every single one of those, and they were all pretty damn terrible. Sounds like two buddies who just plan on cashing in doesn't it? The film is also set to be written by Craig Peters who I can't even find anything about interesting about, so that's not a good sign at all. Still with all that bad news, at least everybody should know that the anime producers and creators will also be involved in the film "heavily"-or so 20th Century Fox says. I only wonder if Fox will even allow them to make the right choices for the fans, and not worry about appealing to 10 year old school kids instead.

In my opinion, I'm positive coming news about this will only continue to get worse. I'm going to try to keep an open mind but honestly, I have NEVER taken Reeves seriously after Bill & Teds Excellent Adventure. Maybe when this is all said and done our parody "Whoa.."'s will finally not be taken as a joke , but instead as the death of what was once a great anime story.



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psycho terror's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/17/2009 05:32
psycho terror
while i very much agree with your point about reeves probably not having what it takes to play spiegel right, i don't agree with your opinion of those Erwin Stoff films. i thought they were all good films (DTESS not so much) but reeves was crap in all of them.

for some reason i am not totally against a live action bebop (probably because i will take any bebop i can get) i doubt reeves will pull it off.

on the bright side though, at least they didn't cast that shitweasel shia leboaeaouaef.
Phalanxxx's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/17/2009 05:48
Phalanxxx
All those films were pretty good-alright. Quentin Flynn should be in more films. He's hawtness. Besides that, Faye was always my fave character anyway; any idea who'll be our favourite amnesiac klepto-gambler?
ShadokatRegn's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/17/2009 06:46
ShadokatRegn
Er - that's a really odd decision for Spike. I can't really see that going well at all, he doesn't have any of the right mannerisms at all.
Remo's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/17/2009 07:00
Remo
Street Kings can never be considered good.
That movie was a whores abortion.
RonBurgandy2010's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/17/2009 08:14
RonBurgandy2010
A Scanner Darkly was pretty good.
OrochiRion's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/17/2009 09:10
OrochiRion
umm...didnt they ALREADY have a live-action Cowboy Bebop movie?
I believe it was called "Serenity" & "Firefly" instead.

Keanu Reeves...as Spike...

...they would make a better cast for this than K.Reeves in ANYTHING.
Sterling Aiayla Lyons's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/17/2009 09:26
Sterling Aiayla Lyons
Holy shit, they do have an uncanny resemblance. Honestly though, does anyone actually still expect good things out of hollywood? It's become an industry that's a money drain.

This casting role is still not funnier than this though:
(if it were real that is)
grafkhun's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/17/2009 10:19
grafkhun
Why can't they just make another animated movie T_T oh well, let's just hope for the best. I wonder who is Edward/Francois Appeldelhi?
Daxelman's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/17/2009 10:28
Daxelman
A Scanner Darkly was pretty fucking rad man.
Insd's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/17/2009 12:36
Insd
Quentin Tarintino should be making this. And who's gonna play eD?
IronPikeman's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/17/2009 13:59
IronPikeman
I remember when the new movie fad was making game based films and look how that turned out...

So...

Game-based films= Fail
Movie-based games= Fail
Live-action Anime films= Utter Failure
Teen Idol's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/17/2009 15:06
Teen Idol
Laurence "Furious Styles" Styles as Jet. LAWL
Teen Idol's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/17/2009 15:10
Teen Idol
Okay okay okay, A Scanner Darkly was good the more I think about it. I just don't remember it as much as I thought I would, so that's not a good sign. As for Street Kings and Constantine, those were camel shit. The Day the Earth Stood Still was as mediocre at best as well.

Anyway, this just has "suck" written all over it. I can see it it working.
JRisJunior's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/17/2009 18:57
JRisJunior
NOOOOO they're going to ruin Cowboy Bebop for me! oh god...
RAB's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/23/2009 22:15
RAB
this is fucking stupid. why did you even tell me about this.
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