Keanu Reeves isn’t any stranger to bookish roles; he has, by my rely, been in 18 films which can be primarily based on books, brief tales, and performs. However what in regards to the roles that he didn’t play, however ought to have? Allow us to proceed our celebration of the Keanu Reevaissance by touring by time and area to think about the bookish roles Keanu didn’t play (however we actually want he had performed, so let’s fake).
What if, as a substitute of (or along with) these well-known roles he did play, he had additionally been solid in just a few extra bookish roles? Be part of me, if you’ll, on an journey by time, area, and our imaginations.
1989 (Invoice and Ted’s Wonderful Journey)
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Keanu Reeves as Kaz Brekker in Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
No, the e-book wasn’t printed till 2015. Don’t hassle me with particulars! We’re touring by time and area! Someone get Keanu a haircut, in all probability. (I nonetheless haven’t learn this one. I do know, I do know.)
1991 (Level Break)
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Keanu Reeves as Danny Rand in Iron Fist
That is the would-be casting that impressed this entire submit. Think about, if you’ll, that Marvel had one way or the other, miraculously, pulled their heads out of their asses and solid an Asian American (or, on this case, Asian Canadian) as Danny Rand, the privileged younger man who turns into the legendary Iron Fist. Think about.
1992 (Dracula)
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Keanu Reeves as Dara in The Metropolis of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty
Okay, I nonetheless haven’t learn this e-book both (I do know!) however my understanding is that Dara is the love curiosity, sort of, and can be a 1000-year-old warrior. Sounds excellent (even when Jonathan Harker didn’t find yourself a vampire).
1993 (A lot Ado About Nothing)
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Keanu Reeves as Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
I simply. skjldfHIsfbnknasdfgh. (Since we’re time touring, maybe Keanu at completely different ages may play Heathcliff at completely different ages? Sure. I believe he may.) Please observe that I thought-about each Heathcliff and Jane Eyre‘s Rochester right here, however I finally went with Heathcliff as extraordinarily and delightfully towards sort.
1994 (Pace)
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Keanu Reeves as Nate in Heroine Complicated by Sarah Kuhn
Keanu as a hulking half-demon? WHY NOT. He was actually bulked as much as play Jack Traven on the time. He is probably not fairly 6’four however he’s tall sufficient.
1995 (A Stroll within the Clouds)
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Keanu Reeves as Henry Crawford in Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
It! May! Work! **faints** Critically, although, we all know from his portrayal of Paul on this film that he can do interval items in the event that they aren’t Dracula (don’t @ me, he was horrible and so was my different real love, Winona). Why not an Austen rogue?
1995 (Johnny Mnemonic)
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Keanu Reeves as Marko in Saga by Brian Ok. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
Let’s simply cowl up Keanu’s worst haircut ever with some horns, lets? And take away that gun; Marko is a pacifist.
1999 (The Matrix)
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Keanu Reeves as Kanan Jarrus in Star Wars: Rebels
Hear. We’re touring by time and area right here. I don’t need to justify this as bookish, but when I did, Star Wars: A New Daybreak is a prequel to Star Wars: Rebels, happening seven years earlier than the present begins. (This, after all, would make Matrix-era Keanu too outdated to play e-book Kanan, who’s 32 in his final Rebels look, however I already requested you to not hassle me with particulars.)
2005 (Constantine)
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Keanu Reeves as Black Bolt in The Inhumans and Black Bolt
Is that this kiiiinda the identical character as John Constantine? No, but in addition a bit of bit sure. Ought to a personality who can not communicate be performed by an actor who can? I don’t know. Black Bolt can communicate and chooses to not (as a result of catastrophic issues occur when he does), so possibly?
2019 (All the time Be My Perhaps)
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Keanu Reeves as Michael in So Candy by Rebekah Weatherspoon
We’ve it straight from the writer’s mouth that that is dream casting. No must time journey! Someone greenlight this child!
