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Why, Hollywood, why?
cubensis55:
Emo actors should play emo characters, not badasses.
Spike = Badass
Humanoidz:
--- Quote from: zherok on March 31, 2009, 11:32:46 PM ---I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.
Bebop is finished and anything they do now is unlikely to have ruined the chances of something else. I don't think the material is so untouchable it can't be done, and at worst it'll probably be a crappy action film we'll forget about later.
Reeves doesn't have a very huge range, but I could see him doing Spike. Do it well? I dunno. I'd rather he do it than they get some nameless actor who's future probably includes more boring teen/young adult dramas than action movies.
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"No names" usually fill in these kinds of roles pretty well. Thing is, Hollywood wants to obviously attach names to the film. I wouldn't be surprised if they try to get Ving Rhames for Jet, which would be ok I think. Keanu is a bit drab and limited and would not fit Spike.
zherok:
How'd Dragonball's no name work out? Wasn't the only notable Chow Yun-Fat?
I think it becomes an effort less to fill the role as to pimp some up and comer who probably better fits a WB drama than an action film.
quekmeister:
I don't think Reeves will do a particularly bad job, but since it's Hollywood, I'm betting they go for a nice romance with Faye... And Jet (Vin Diesel? It could happen.) probably dies to give emotional drama. They'll probably age Ed up to non-minor since she's always wearing that loose singlet with nothing underneath.
Steve Basnof:
How is Keanu Reeves going to pull off Spike's hair? I'm doubting that he can. I imagine Spike's hair is like those people you see whose hair is curly and it just mounds up but since they have large (like silver dollar size) curls it somehow inevitably looks cool. Keanu Reeves does not have that hair :( He only has flat straight emo hair.
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