Live action Cowboy Bebop film in trouble?

MTV interviewed Keanu Reeves for his upcoming film "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee" which is due out this year. The live action movie adaptation of Cowboy Bebop came up and this is what Keanu said:


"There's a draft of the script, but the writer did such a great job...in order to make the movie you would need half a billion dollars. The studio kinda just went: 'This script is fantastic - and it would cost half a billion dollars!"


Apparently there would have to be some retooling of the script to cut cost for it to be greenlit by the studio heads. I just hope they don't fuck it up like the god awful Dragonball Evolution movie.


The story of the film will expand on the first episode of Cowboy Bebop titled "Asteroid Blues" wherein Spike and Jet track down an illegal drug trafficker along with his "pregnant" girlfriend.


I honestly think that Keanu Reeves could pull of the Spike Spiegel look plus he knows Kung Fu y'know, but the acting? Well, it's not bad to hope for a miracle, right?

 

And here's an AMV I made of Cowboy Bebop a couple of years ago. If you can't tell, I'm a very big fan of the series and I really hope they do it justice.