Now that  Keanu is fresh from ruining the sci fi classic The Day the Earth Stood Still now he wants to attempt to ruin another geek and anime icon Spike Spiegel from anime classic Cowboy Bebop.  MTV reported in their interview with Keanu that

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.”

Reeves is hoping to play the iconic character and MTV’s blog actually thinks he looks like him, how old is Keanu now 44? we cant see him and frankly don’t want him playing Spike. Keanu went on to tell the MTV movie blog

“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.”

With devoted fans all over the world, and a complex universe to depict on screen, Reeves knows that it won’t be easy to make a “Cowboy Bebop” movie. “Yeah,” he grinned when reminded of these facts. “But that’s why you want to do it.”

Ninety nine percent of live action remakes of anime classics are failures, we are looking at you Dragonball, so its hard to see how they are going to pull this off. Spike has such a subtle range of emotion’s we can’t see Keanu acting this part out  and if they don’t include Ed or Enin in this movie why bother trying to make it at all?

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