Actor Keanu Reeves […] told the MTV Movies Blog that he hopes to play the lead role in Twentieth Century Fox’s proposed live-action film adaptation of Sunrise’s Cowboy Bebop multi-genre action anime series. Erwin Stoff, a film producer who worked closely with Reeves on The Matrix and A Scanner Darkly, told the IFMagazine.com entertainment website in July that a film development deal was signed. Stoff and Reeves both emphasized a desire to remain faithful to the original work.

Keanu Reeves Hopes to Star in Live-Action Cowboy Bebop – Anime News Network (Via MTV Movies)