KEANU TO STAR IN COWBOY BEBOP

Kean reeves is to star in cowboy bebop.The a scanner Darkly actor has landed a role in the futuristic new movie,based on an acclaimed Japanese Aime series.Kean will play reformed criminal spike siege,now a space cow-boy and co-pilot of the spaceship bepob who is battling his own demons.The actor playing spike's co-pilot jet  black has not yet been announced.The premise of the series is that humanity has built "astral gates"to get around the solar system easily.The first one,in the moon's orbit,destroyed half the moon,raining rock on the planet  beneath and killing 4.5 billion people.fifty years later the survivors are living under grounds as the rocks keep falling,but have perfected the astral gate technology that allows them to colon ice the solar system ,as crime flour is hes authorities  on beauty hunters like Kean's character to bring in the worst offenders.filming is set to start shooting later this year