‘Cowboy Bebop’ Script Getting a Rewrite – Too Expensive for Production


Keanu Reeves recently sat down and did an interview, in which he talks about the live-action Cowboy Bebop in which he’s set to star as ‘Spike Spiegel’ In the interview he talks about how the script is currently going through a rewrite, not because it was awful, but because it would have cost half a billion dollars to make!

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The writer in question is likely Peter Craig, who previously spoke out about how “extremely faithful” his screenplay was to the original anime series.

Reeves said:

“The only challenge was to make a satisfying western narrative out of the kind of storytelling that happens,” he added. “There’s a great draft, so we’re just trying to pull it back a little bit now.”


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