On a side note, a Bleach "live - action" style movie may be quite interesting, as long as there were not toooo many special effects. A much, much slower pace and focus on charactersation being the order of the day - as that is what, in my opinion, made the series' stand out.

On - topic: For Keanu to pull this off, would require a vast departure from his usual acting style, which would certainly endanger his acting history of "almost every character for every role" - oh, aswell as taking a chance on actually immersing himself fully into a role.

MatrixRefugee wrote:

Fen wrote:

Now they're turning Japanese cartoons into movies?  Christ.  Are there no more original ideas anymore?  Every movie is either a remake, a novel adaptation, a videogame adaptation, and now an adaptation of some Japanimation movie.

Thing is, it's cheaper now to buy adaptation options than it is to buy the options on an original script, hence the plethora of remakes and adaptations. And since Japanese copyright laws are more flexible than American ones, it stands to reason they'd be using more material that originated on the other side of the Pacific.

Yea...what he said.

Paschendale wrote:

i refuse to comment until the movie comes out, give him a chance

Indeed Operative... I agree... Ain't that what we've all said as well to Heath Ledger when we all learned that he was cast as the Joker in the Dark Knight. And looked at how everyone ate back what they've said against Heath...

I wonder, I could see Holywood making an Akira Live-Action movie in the near future. Oh gawd I hope not.

While writing: I looked up Akira for exactly that just in case: IT WILL BE DONE. OH MY GOD.

Cowboy Bebop is a legend in the anime world.  This being successful isn't very likely, imo.  I'll check it out when it is released but I'm not getting my hopes up.

And Othinn FTW.

Hollywood isn't just taking the "cheaper" route but the less creative one as well.  Originality is about as rare as a good actor/actress these days. >_>