First COWBOY BEBOP Script would have cost Half a Billion Dollars to Make

Whoa. Keanu Reeves recently sat down and did a little interview with MTV in which he talks about the live-action Cowboy Bobop film that he is set to star in. He will be playing Spike Spiegel. In the interview he talks about how the script is currently going through a rewrite, not because it was bad but because it would have cost half a billion dollars to make! Here's what he said:

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.

Peter Craig is writing the script, and in the past he has talked bout how extremely faithful his screenplay was to the original anime series. Now that the script is being rewriten for a smaller budget will that faithful vision be compromised? When the script went to the studio executives said his scope of the script was too much for them. Reeve said laughing:

So the studio went, 'This movie is fantastic and it would cost half a billion dollars, so he's doing a rewrite.

As for whom is going to be in the movie that was in the anime series, Reeves says:

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.

I'm pretty pumped up about this film if it's as good as everyone is saying it is. Maybe the fans of the series will be happy. Only time will tell. From what it sounds like, it is going to get a really good adaptation. What do you think about it?

You can watch the interview below: