This just made me smile in every way possible!
For those of you who were not aware, there is a live action, feature film adaptation of Cowboy Bebop in the works. As of now, Keanu Reeves is set to be our “Lonely Space Cowboy” Spike Spiegel. I don’t know how I feel about the casting. I can’t say it’s a great idea, but I can’t say its a terrible one either. Regardless, that is neither here nor there for the purposes of this post.
In a recent interview with Keanu Reeves it turns out that the current draft of the script is TOO good. I didn’t know such a thing was possible.
“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… So the studio went, ‘This movie is fantastic and it would cost half a billion dollars,” laughed Reeves, “so he’s doing a rewrite.”
Well isn’t that just peachy keen!?
According to the star, everyone is going to be in this movie. Obviously our main concerns are Jet, Faye, Ed, and Ein. It looks like we have another Science Fiction / Western on our hands. Cowboy Bebop is something that I hold pretty close to my heart, just as any good self respecting nerd would. The best news to come out of all of this is the writer of the script, Peter Craig, has promised to stay extremely faithful to the source material.
I’m pretty excited!
So let’s talk about this one kittens. If Keanu is signed as Spike, who would you like to see in the other roles?
More importantly, I will consider it a CRIME if Tank! doesn’t make it in the film. Opening credits… that may be the only place where it belongs!
