How awesome is it that we finally get some word on the live action Cowboy Bebop movie. MTV had some time to catch up with Keanu Reeves during a press event for his latest film, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee. If you remember, a few months ago it was reported that he had been cast as the main character of Spike Spiegel. Well, according to Reeves, the latest is…

“There’s a draft of the script, but the writer did such a great job [that] in order to make the movie, you would need half a billion dollars… So the studio went, ‘This movie is fantastic and it would cost half a billion dollars,’ so he’s doing a rewrite.”

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

Definitely good news that the writer (most likely Peter Craig) is definitely putting everything that made Cowboy Bebop great in the script, unfortunately that also means a major budget. Because of this of course, it is now unfortunate that it will have to be all scaled back. If there is any light at the end of the tunnel, it is clearly that they are working to bring something worthy to the table while not simply letting the project fail. I can’t wait!