Speaking of rumors that no longer need confirming, THR is reporting that Fox is confirming that Keanu Reeves would be playing the Spike Spiegel role in a supposed live action version of the popular Japanese animated television series, Cowboy Bebop:
Twentieth Century Fox is bringing the acclaimed Japanese anime television series “Cowboy Bebop” to the big screen, with Keanu Reeves attached to star as an adventurous bounty hunter traveling through space in 2071.
One of the big titles in anime, “Bebop” is set in a time where “Astral Gates” make interstellar travel possible. Humanity, decimated by a lunar explosion resulting from a Gate accident, spread out across the solar system, as did crime, which gave rise to the use of bounty hunters.
Reeves would play Spike Spiegel, a former member of a crime syndicate turned bounty hunter. Spiegel, along with Jet Black, a police officer turned bounty hunter, are the two pilots of the spaceship Bebop. [source]
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