Wooooah, totally Spike Spiegel dude.

[apsham]

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http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/01/15/confir...s-cowboy-bebop/

"Confirmed: Keanu Reeves Playing Spike Spiegel in Fox's Cowboy Bebop

Posted on Thursday, January 15th, 2009 at 4:34 pm by: David Chen

About six months ago, we reported on a rumor that Keanu Reeves might play Spike Spiegel in an upcoming live-action English adaptation of Cowboy Bebop. We're now hearing confirmation from Variety and THR that Reeves will indeed play Spiegel for Fox's upcoming film, with a script by Peter Craig.

As Peter Sciretta wrote back in July, Sinichiro Watanabe's popular Japanese anime is set in the year 2071 A.D. when an cataclysmic astral gate accident has scattered humanity across the solar system. Bebop follows a group of bounty hunters, called "Cowboys", on the spaceship Bebop. Spiegel is a bounty hunter and a former member of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate, who is haunted by the memory of his time in the organization. The anime has spawned an animated movie, two manga series, and two video games.

The show's creators will be involved in the creation of the film, with Kenji Uchida and Shinichiro Watanabe (from Bebop's Japanese animation company Sunrise) associate producing along with series writer Keiko Nobumoto. Masahiko Minami, a producer onCowboy Bebop, has also signed on to the film as a production consultant.

Edited January 16, 2009 by Soldier Antsham

[RoyWill Rumble]

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Fuck.

[gunnar hendershow]

It's a live action adaptation, so they might as well go for the total suck factor instead of actually trying.

[Thatz]

Hm....cool. He's not a great actor by any means, but he should be competent. Bebop is one of the very few (and I mean few) anime that I've ever enjoyed, and I think that it could make a really good film.

[GoGo Yubari]

I've already had an anime geek conniption fit about this in other threads. So imagine an anime geek conniption fit over Keanu Reeves playing another character I love and yeah. There you go.