Just in time for the 306th birthday of the event, Universal announces that Keanu Reeves will be depicting a Samurai in 47 Ronin.
In “47 Ronin,” he will play one of the swordsmen; the group and their master are revered in Japan for their revenge attack on Dec. 14, 1702.
The film will tell a stylized version of the story, mixing fantasy elements of the sort seen in “The Lord of the Rings” pics, with gritty battle scenes akin to those in films such as “Gladiator.”
I get a knee jerk reaction when publicists throw out phrases like “just like Lord of the Rings” or “battles as epic as Gladiator” because to me it just seems like they want to latch on to what made those movies great in an effort to pump up their own film.
Can they not just say it will be a grand fantasy epic, with impressive large scale battles? Nope.. gotta name drop Lord of the Rings and Gladiator.
Anyways, we all know Keanu can do choreographed martial style fighting, so I have faith that this will at least be a good action flick and I cannot resist a period samurai action flick. I just hope that they don’t do cheesy wire work. I always despise that. It looks so unnatural that it doesn’t add to the action, it takes away.
This is far better news than hearing he is going to do Speed 3 (which he isn’t)
