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Keanu Reeves Discusses Live-Action Cowboy Bebop
posted on by Egan Loo
Actor Cowboy Bebop film project with the Collider movie news website in a Monday interview. Reeves premiered his new film Henry's Crime at the Toronto International Film Festival on Tuesday.
When Collider asked for an update on the Cowboy Bebop project, Reeves responded:
I haven't heard anything back. They turned in the script and it was very expensive. I don't know if they're going to…it would cost, like, half a billion dollars to make that script. So, I don't know where it's at right now.
Reeves had Peter Craig was rewriting the script. He added at the time that the producers were "just trying to pull it back" in scope.
The American film studio co-producing this proposed adaptation of the 1998 anime series. The original series follows the motley crew of the spaceship Bebop as it travels throughout the solar system in search of the next job.
Reeves is slated to star. Joshua Long is acting as a production supervisor, and Erwin Stoff, a film producer who worked closely with Reeves on The Matrix and A Scanner Darkly, is also attached. The associate producers are Sunrise President BONES studio co-founder) are both acting as production consultants.
[Via Hollywood Channel]
Image © Sunrise Inc.
