Robert Downey Jr. should keep that black make-up from Tropic Thunder on and go right ahead and play Jet Black… Now there’s something I’d pay to see. On second thought, they ought to cast someone like Ving Rhames.

Rhona Mitra might be a cool Faye, she’s got the looks, the sexy curves and the attitude (just try and picture her in that outfit!). Though I admit, not quite spunky or fiesty enough. Ed will be almost impossible to cast but I bet someone like Ellen Page could pull it off.

As for Reeves, he’s a good actor, who many people feel is bad. Truth is he’s not really, he simply chooses bad roles. We’re talking about the guy who wowed critics and moviegoers with his cult performance in indie dramas like My Own Private Idaho with River Phenoix, and who played Hamlet on stage on the biggest Canadian venues. A critic once wrote that he was “one of the three best Hamlets I’d ever seen” (check Wikipedia). He just starres in bad movies. I like Reeves a lot, but he’s too old for the part. They need someone like Ryan Gosling. Tall, intense and carrying the aire of a troublemaker. He’s also got good comedic timing and is an intense dedicated actor.

Cowboy Bebop was one of the greatest cult pop culture achievements of the last decade or so. If Hollywood screws it up (as they do most things), its likely I won’t forgive them. Then again, that doesn’t mean I’m not looking forward to it.

Also, why not add he also “does seem to fit well into films like” Bill and Ted? Or would that mess up too much with your “lack of range” line of thought?…

Anyway, I told you, the Japanese have never heard of Cowboy Bebop, so they’ll probably think this movie is some kind of new-fangled crazy American thing.

Here’s the real question: who plays Vicious?

And can they get the whole episodic feel in a two hour movie? Or will it just be Spike vs. Vicious the whole time? They can’t remake the actual Bebop movie, because it about Boris. They ought to deal with the Julia story, which will mean having Vicious in it somewhere.