The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that Keanu Reeves will indeed be portraying Spike Spiegal in 20th Century Fox’s live-action film adaptation of the hit anime series COWBOY BEBOP. This was something we could only previously speculate about when Reeves talked to MTV last month about plans to make the film with long-time producing partner Erwin Stoff (see related article).
A short-film writer and director named Peter Craig is writing the script. I don’t know much about him but he did write and direct a comedy short film called THE CLIMATIC DEATH OF DARK NINJA, self-described as “a movie about making a movie about ninjas.”
The good news is that original series director of animation Shinichiro Watanabe, along with series writer Keiko Nobumoto will serve as associate producers. Series producer Masahiko Minami will serve as production consultant.
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