I had a horrible dream in hypersleep...

...that Keanu Reeves was going to play Spike Spiegel in a live action version of Cowboy Bebop.

Keanu Reeves is taking on another sci-fi mission for 20th Century Fox. The "Day the Earth Stood Still" star is attached to topline a live-action bigscreen adaptation of the Japanese anime TV series "Cowboy Bebop" for the studio.

I happened to discover a June 2009 article in Variety confirming this... much more recently than anything I had heard previously. This depresses me greatly. They are talking about a 2011 release date.

Keanu was brilliant in Constantine, as a pissed-off, doesn't-give-a-shit badass. That isn't how I read Spike at all... I can see how someone might make the mistake, but it is so wrong. All of that smiling, all of that rhythm.

I hope I'm wrong.

Not that we need a live action Cowboy Bebop in the first place. Who the fuck do you cast for Faye? (If you say Jessica Alba, I'm come into to your home and kill you.)