http://www.aceshowbiz.com/news/view/00045590.html

What is with him and the term "half breed"? :)

... could be also a literal translation of the Japanese term. anyone here who speaks Japanese and could check that?

http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/64648036.html#cutid1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronin_%28comic_book_series%29

I was just reading a keanu article how he enjoyed this Ronin comic book series when he was younger and here he is the lead in 47Ronin.
Just FYI :)

Found one Interview and one report:

http://sanadacorner.com/sanadacorner-interview-with-cary-hiroyuki-tagawa/#.TuZXMKqaE6k.twitter

http://www.dimsum.co.uk/culture/47-ronin.html

Enjoy reading! :-)

oh well. whatever happens, happens, as Spike would say ;)

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/%20john-carter-taylor-kitsch-47-ronin-keanu-reeves-mission-impossible-283347

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"Universal wants a big event movie, [but] Carl did everything he could to hijack it, to make it into a drama," says a source close to the project. "Keanu was so along for the ride." Meanwhile, he says, executives on the project "placated Carl and Keanu extensively until it was too late," allowing them to film sequences that will end up on the cutting-room floor. Representatives for Rinsch and Reeves declined comment.

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I can imagine Keanu wanting to make it a drama rather than an action movie; an internal rather than external story. I can also imagine Universal being totally opposed to the idea. Ye gads, I hope this movie doesn't end up as a choppy patchwork of action scenes, with a few amputated drama scenes hanging loosely and inexplicably in the air. :-(

May I have the bits that will end up on the cutting-room floor? May I? Please? Pretty please? *big, pleading kitten eyes*
... for my own Cinema Paradiso... :(

(of course, since it's been shot in 3D, it's bytes, not bits, and it's not the cutting-room floor but the virtual recycle bin, but let's not get too technical, that's another documentary ;) . and the contents of said recycle bin would do just fine ;) )

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1335975/releaseinfo

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