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09-23-2009, 09:30 PM
Actor indicates that "everyone is in there" from anime's main characters
Actor Keanu Reeves (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=14315) (The Matrix, Animatrix (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1710), Johnny Mnemonic) told MTV (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/company.php?id=1147) News that the proposed (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-01-15/live-action-cowboy-bebop-proposal-officially-announced) live-action Cowboy Bebop (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=10586) film project is currently being rewritten. During a press event for The Private Lives of Pippa Lee film, he said, "There's a draft of the script, but the writer did such a great job [that] in order to make the movie, you would need half a billion dollars. […] So the studio went, 'This movie is fantastic and it would cost half a billion dollars. So he's doing a rewrite." Reeves added that the producers are "just trying to pull it back" in scope, and "the only challenge was to make a satisfying western narrative."
Reeves also indicated that "everyone is in there" from the main characters of Shinichiro Watanabe (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=774) and Sunrise's Cowboy Bebop anime series. Peter Craig (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=74803) is writing the screenplay for the American film studio Twentieth Century Fox (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/company.php?id=317), the production company 3 Arts Entertainment, and Sunrise. 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 Kenji Uchida (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=7545), the original Cowboy Bebop director Shinichiro Watanabe, and the original series script supervisor Keiko Nobumoto (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=1026). The Sunrise studio itself and Masahiko Minami (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=726) (former Sunrise producer and BONES (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/company.php?id=198) studio co-founder) are both acting as production consultants.
Courtesy: ANN, MTV
What a surprise......
Actor Keanu Reeves (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=14315) (The Matrix, Animatrix (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1710), Johnny Mnemonic) told MTV (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/company.php?id=1147) News that the proposed (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-01-15/live-action-cowboy-bebop-proposal-officially-announced) live-action Cowboy Bebop (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=10586) film project is currently being rewritten. During a press event for The Private Lives of Pippa Lee film, he said, "There's a draft of the script, but the writer did such a great job [that] in order to make the movie, you would need half a billion dollars. […] So the studio went, 'This movie is fantastic and it would cost half a billion dollars. So he's doing a rewrite." Reeves added that the producers are "just trying to pull it back" in scope, and "the only challenge was to make a satisfying western narrative."
Reeves also indicated that "everyone is in there" from the main characters of Shinichiro Watanabe (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=774) and Sunrise's Cowboy Bebop anime series. Peter Craig (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=74803) is writing the screenplay for the American film studio Twentieth Century Fox (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/company.php?id=317), the production company 3 Arts Entertainment, and Sunrise. 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 Kenji Uchida (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=7545), the original Cowboy Bebop director Shinichiro Watanabe, and the original series script supervisor Keiko Nobumoto (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=1026). The Sunrise studio itself and Masahiko Minami (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=726) (former Sunrise producer and BONES (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/company.php?id=198) studio co-founder) are both acting as production consultants.
Courtesy: ANN, MTV
What a surprise......