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THE SKINNY: Last summer, iF Magazine broke the news that the classic Anime series COWBOY BEBOP was in development as a live-action feature film.
Now, iF has some more exclusive information from producer Erwin Stoff after last week's official announcement of the movie getting and greenlight and Keanu Reeves being cast as intergalactic bounty hunter Spike Spiegel.
“The truth of the matter of is, I’m not going to know anything else until there’s a script,” Stoff tells iF, “but we’d like to make it next year.”
Peter Craig is on board to pen the script, and Stoff is quick to note that the story will pick up with Spiegel already in action.
“It’s not an origin story,” says Stoff. “We start with him, when he is in his present life already.”
Many of the key people involved in the Anime series, including the series director and writer Shinichirô Watanabe. Most importantly, Stoff says, Watanabe will be involved every step of the way, since he will be an associate producer on the film alongside the anime series’ producer Kenji Uchida and show writer Keiko Nobumoto.
“First of all, we’re honoring the series,” says Stoff. “I don’t know how many people can say this, but the first thing we did was go over and meet with Watanabe. We started there. He will be the first guy to read a script when it’s done. We’ll discuss directors with him. As far as the cast goes, I can’t tell you who is going to play what, but I can’t imagine that we’re not going to have a totally multi-ethnic cast.”
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