According to The Hollywood Reporter, 20th Century Fox will be adapting the Japanese anime series "Cowboy Bebop" to the big screen, with Keanu Reeves attached.
Considered as one of the best anime series ever made, "Cowboy Bebop" takes place in the year 2071 and follows the adventures of a group of bounty hunters traveling in their spaceship, The Bebop. The anime is strongly influenced by American music and many of its action sequences, from space battles to hand-to-hand martial arts combat, are set and timed to music.
Reeves will star as bounty hunter Spike Spiegel, a former member of a crime syndicate, who is highly skilled in marksmanship and Jeet Kune Do (a martial arts system developed by Bruce Lee). Reeves went through extensive training under acclaimed fight choreographer Yuen Woo Ping for the filming of "The Matrix" films, so it will be very interesting to see him doing martial arts again.
The anime series was produced by Sunrise Inc. and first shown in TV Tokyo in 1998. Sunrise president Kenji Uchida, the TV series' director of animation, Shinichiro Watanabe, and series writer Keiko Nobumoto will serve as associate producers in this live-action adaptation. Series producer Masahiko Minami will serve as production consultant.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
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