Comments on: Cowboy Bebop Live Action Movie

By: Kurosaki Ichiballs

Kurosaki Ichiballs — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 07:41:31 +0000

Rumor has it that Keanu Reeves is set to play Spike. Good casting. I’d love to see Rachel Evan Wood as Faye Valentine.

By: bronchitis

bronchitis — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:51:21 +0000

Simply having the hero be a smoker could tempt the new ratings scale making this more adult than maybe Fox would want to market it as.

Not to mention hermaphrodites and tranny hookers!

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:27:23 +0000

Erwin Sloff has brought us “fine” adaptations, such as I Am Legend and Constantine… Oh, wait, no he didn’t. Hollywood took a steaming shit on both of those properties. “Lets take a cool british character like John Constantine, americanize him, and throw in Keanu Reeves for good measure. Then lets take the main themes from the comics and twist it completely until we get something marketable. SOunds good. Green-light!” or “Hey lets take a story about a man surviving alone in a world populated by vampires, change the entire fucking story and throw in Will Smith. Will Smith? It has to be good, right? Right? Guys? Anyone listening? No? Green-light!”

The fact that they’re taking Cowboy Bebop and letting these guys shit on it is disturbing. What happened to the days of Hollywood movies being based on scripts written by real writers? Why all this money hungry, franchise destroying bullshit? Aren’t the writers getting paid to write? Not take a franchise full of life and potential and suck it all out for a watered down piece of shit movie just so they can make more goddamn money?

What the hell is wrong with Hollywood today where they have to do this to everything we love? If they want a good Cowboy Bebop movie, let someone with a passion for the project do it. Don’t give it to Hollywood writers, let the japanese production studio that created the show come up with a script. Let them do all the pre-production work. Then send it to Hollywood and hold auditions for GOOD ACTORS who REMOTELY LOOK like the characters. Don’t cast it now. Don’t let Hollywood write it. Take a few years and put PASSION INTO THE PROJECT. DON’T JUST SUCK THE LIFE OUT OF IT.

Let the show’s original writers and artists and producers and directors have a say in the project. Involve them. Do it right. If this movie sucks I’m gonna take Lewis Black’s advice in Accepted and move to Papua New Guinea. LMAO. DO THIS MOVIE RIIIIGGGHHHTTT!!!!

By: neverborn86

neverborn86 — Thu, 21 May 2009 22:15:44 +0000

My god why?!?

In the name of all that is holy and good stop this bullshit now! Cowboy Bebop was a damn good anime and thats how it needs to stay!

Sorry but Fuck You Fox you money hungry, franchise raping, bastards!!

By: peanut

peanut — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:31:20 +0000

i seriously think it is a good idea, and you cant knock something unless you try it. and you know who should play edward, upcoming star RB Aanthony,A*K*A Sharonda Anthony.

By: hey

hey — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:32:31 +0000

how about wachowski brothers, they are fans of the show you know. they love the series and they will probably try to catch the spirit of the original. producer guy work with them at the matrix, they even know how to deal with reeves and no matter what we do and say looks like he already casted as spike.

By: bhwoman

bhwoman — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:20:05 +0000

Keanu Reeves is dead wrong for Spike. Think of the look, the sound and the attitude — Kevin Bacon!!!

By: dominica

dominica — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:07:46 +0000

Okay, here is who I think they should cast:
Faye – Kelly Hu – She’s got the hairline, asian backround, body, and heartshaped face with cute lips
Ed – Ellen Page – She won’t get older, she has the face and body, and she tends to play young kids. she could pass as a young boy/girl [just like ed]
Jet – Gerard Butler – He is barely taller than keannu reeves, but he’s a lot bulkier, and has a great voice
What do you guys think?

By: MDstatus

MDstatus — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 19:13:44 +0000

Ron Pearlman as Jet
Joan Allen as Julia
Robin Shou as Vicious
Angelina Jolie as Faye
a real and CG dog as Ein
now for Spike Spiegal, should be played by a stud of the 21st century
well known actor, now, i am not knocking Keanu Reeves, but please
if they cast him in it, that will ruin the franchise, and my whole collection in keeping my Cowboy Bebop series and anime movie.
So i will have to disagree, no Keanu as Spike. Give someone else a chance, give another real actor a chance who can pull off the looks, the nonchalant coolness and the fighting style moves of Bruce Lee like
Spike.
I am having trouble trying to figure out who can play a tomboyish-computer – genius as Ed? But i heard rumours Dakota Fanning….no!
why not have the actress that starred in 2Fast2Furious as Suki, i do not know her name, but just a thought.
Let’s be real with characters, the franchise, and respect for Anime.
Now, with that in mind, if people still should believe Keanu (matrix) Reeves for Spike?, it’s just like saying, Leonardo DiCaprio as Akira or fingernails to a chalkboard, cuz Akira live action is coming next year, and i already see…disappointment.
So please don’t ruin Cowboy Bebop!

By: scott

scott — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:32:34 +0000

keanu reeves as spike!