Quels sont tes films de science-fiction préférés ?
Pour le côté aventure : Star Wars. Pour le côté dramatique, un peu film noir : Blade Runner. Pour les grandes idées : 2001, l’Odyssée de l’espace. Et pour la façon de tendre un miroir à la nature : A Scanner Darkly, dans lequel j’ai joué.
Joaquin Phoenix a annoncé qu’il arrêtait sa carrière d’acteur pour faire de la musique. En tant que musicien, qu’en penses-tu ?
Joaquin est un acteur remarquable et ce serait une grande perte pour la profession et le public. Moi, je continue à m’amuser en tant qu’acteur, mais je suppose que ce n’est plus le cas pour lui. En même temps, c’est une belle déclaration d’indépendance. La vie peut parfois être une aventure, alors pourquoi pas ?
Et pourtant, ce n’est pas faute d’avoir essayé. Il serait mensonger et hypocrite d’affirmer que Reeves s’est contenté de prêter ses traits et de s’immiscer dans un seul type de rôle ; au contraire, il a brillé par son indépendance (refusant notamment un cachet de 10 millions de dollars pour la suite de Speed, le film d’action à gros budget l’ayant propulsé) et par sa diversité dans le choix de ses interprétations : lancé par son célèbre rôle de policier amateur de surf à la poursuite de braqueurs de banques dans Point Break, il refuse de se confiner à son statut d’acteur de films d’actions, qui à ce titre ne lui ont pas toujours réussi.
“Oh yeah, cool,” he said when I asked him about the flick recently. “We’re trying to do that.”
As fans of the Japanese classic TV series know, “Bebop” follows a crew of bounty hunters traveling around the universe in the year 2071. Reeves hopes to play Spike Spiegel, one of these futuristic cowboys forced to pick up the slack after a population crash and hyperspace gateways have left law-enforcement unable to capture many of the galaxy’s most ruthless criminals.
“It’s got a Western quality, a Western film noir aspect to it,” Reeves said of why he’s such a big fan of Shinichiro Watanabe and Keiko Nobumoto’s groundbreaking series. “It’s got so much style to it, and that’s part of its appeal. That kind of Old West, bordertown, low-tech science fiction aspect.”
Take a look at this clip and you’ll get an idea of why Reeves is not only a perfect-looking fit for Spiegel, but also why he thinks the most important person on the set will be the one trying to translate the series’ unique look. “I think that would be a production designer’s dream,” Reeves said of the flick. “I think you just need a good production designer.”
Wednesday 17th December, 04:01 PM JST
Keanu Reeves, 44, Jennifer Connelly, 38, and Jaden Smith, 10, meet the press in Tokyo on Wednesday during a promotion for their film, “The Day the Earth Stood Still.” The liveliest moments came from the precocious Smith, the son of Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, who said his parents had taught him to just be natural when acting and in the spotlight. Reeves and Connelly had to deal with questions such as what would they do if they met an alien, who would they tell if they learned the world was about to be destroyed and what would their last meal be. The film, a “reimagining” of the 1951 classic sci-fi film, opens in Japan on Saturday, only one week after its U.S. release.
Back to Constantine 2. As Reeves mentioned in a recent interview, he’s up for it. But so far, his demands of $15-million plus big points have left the the sequel makers hesitant. The Day The Earth Stood Still box office should move along negotiations or maybe the project might be moved along to folks who have more faith in Reeves.
As it is, The Matrix man has some Constantine 2 leverage he didn’t have before after he had signed up for a series of artsy films that fizzled at the box office and faded from view over the last few years.
Meanwhile, two other former Reeves vehicles have had re-make talk, too. Surprisingly, the actor isn’t rejecting either possibility, although his return to a Speed picture is more likely than Reeves returning as the ‘whoa dude’ in another Bill & Ted adventure.
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The co-stars talk about remaking the sci-fi classic "The Day the Earth Stood Still" and what drew them to the project.
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