Keanu Reeves is planning something good for Bebop Movie!

The rumor is not anymore that. It is a fact that Keanu Reeves wants to play Spike in the upcoming Live Action Cowboy Bebop movie. He and fellow producer Erwin Stoff, who has spent the last two decades working almost exclusively on Reeves projects, are setting up the movie with 20th Century Fox.

“We’ve got the rights, we’ve got a writer,” Keanu explained. “He’s putting together a scene outline.”

Reeves revealed that this outline for the flick is currently focusing on the origins of the fictional “Bebop” drug developed by the military, which provides its users with a brief surge of superhuman reflexes and awareness. “We’re taking the Red Eye [story], the beginning part of the series,” he explained, “and then we’ll deal with the end of the series. We’re trying to figure out [the time frame]. We’re looking at the story right now.”

Since the beloved 26-episode show (as well as the feature film) didn’t necessarily maintain a linear style of storytelling, Reeves said that somewhere between the Red Eye origins and the “Bebop” conclusion, they’ll be picking out various highlights for their own use.

“Yeah, it’s so episodic and so disconnected. We’re trying to figure out what pieces to put together to tell one story,” he explained. “Because it’s such a short form, to make a 2 hour version [will be tough]. And it’s got so much of an origin-story obligation; you’ve got to get people up to speed, but you don’t want to do much of that. There are a lot of things to take into consideration, but we think we can do something good.”

Source: MTV

Keanu Reeves has revealed many of the progress for the Bebop movie and looking at it carefully, it seems He is putting all his mind and heart on the project, influenced mostly by his love for anime.  It is incredible how far he got into from Bill & Ted´s Excellent Adventure (which was excellent by the way) to his latest movie “The Day the Earth stood still”

It will be interesting to see who will play the anime counterparts in the movie.

There are many elements involved in this project, including the production design, special effects, the screenplay and many other things that can complicate things so one question remains…Can they pull it off? Keanu and Spike fans deserves a great movie and by the looks of it, there is some hope.

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