FUNimation Adds Three Series

FUNimation Adds Three Series
'Gankutsuou,' 'Slayers,' 'Gungrave'

FUNimation has announced three anime properties for which it has obtained licenses, one new and two previously released in the U.S. Slayers Revolution is a 26-eposide series following the three previous Slayers series (Slayers, Slayers Next and Slayers Try); FUNimation will release the complete series on DVD.

FUNimation acquired the rights to the 24-episode Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo series from GDH. The series was previously distributed in the U.S. by Geneon.

And FUNimation will distribute the 26-episode series Gungrave for Geneon, in addition to previously announced Geneon titles Ergo Proxy, Hellsing Ultimate, and Black Lagoon.

Keanu Reeves Wants to Play Spike Spiegel in CBB live Action Movie

Keanu Reeves recently talked about the progress that producer Erwin Stoff, who has worked exclusively with Reeves for the past two decades, has made on a live action remake of Shinichiro Watanabe anime Cowboy Bebop in an interview with MTV. Reeves told MTV that he was eager to play the futuristic space cowboy Spike Spiegel.

"We've got the rights, we've got a writer, and he's putting together a scene outline," Reeves told MTV about the Cowboy Bebop project, which is set up at Fox. Reeves explained to MTV why he loved Cowboy Bebop"t's got a Western quality, a Western/film noir aspect to it. 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."

According to Reeves the live action film will focus on the origins of the Bebop team of bounty hunters and will incorporate the conclusion to the 26-episode anime and at least some of the episodic adventures explored in the series.