http://www.cinematical.com/2009/01/...r-cowboy-bebop/

Ugh.

Yeeessssssssssss......finally!

He could be in Bebop..

But as Spike? This has a high chance of disappointing me...

But please let them have ol' Mad Pierout in it..

Keanu as the Bebop main char = LULZ, another failure

he doesn'T fit the role, nor the style

Oh dear God..next is that he will be Batman?

While I'm excited for the movie, I really don't see Keanu as playing Spike...maybe like...jeez, I can't even come up with a throwaway character.  Keanu Reeves doesn't fit the atmosphere of that show even a little bit.

A remake of Cowboy Bebop?

Is nothing sacred?

   "Hollywood: Where we do nothing but copy off Asia every year."

   Oh, look at that movie "The Uninivited".  That certainly isn't the billionth remake of an Asian horror movie.

I like Cowboy Bebop, and I like Keanu Reeves... but whether the two gel just right remains to be seen when the movie comes out.

I cant see him pulling it off

Exactly. Fingers crossed.

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.

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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.