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Keanu Reeves TV Show ‘Rain’ Greenlighted: Actor To Portray Half-Japanese, Half-American Assassin

The Keanu Reeves TV show Rain was recently greenlighted. The show will allow the Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure star to showcase his many talents. The actor will star in the hour-long series, which he will also executive produce.

The handsome 49-year-old actor has appeared in minor roles on the small screen in the past, but the Keanu Reeves TV show Rain will mark the first time that the Beirut-born actor and producer has taken on a leading role in a television series.

Rain is also the first project from Los Angeles-based Slingshot Global Media, reported Deadline.

Keanu Reeves’s TV show will be based on the best-selling John Rain book series by Barry Eisler. The author of forty books, Eisler recently changed the titles of his John Rain novels, according to his author profile on Amazon. Eisler eloquently explained his decision to rename the books.

“Why have I changed the titles of the Rain books? Simply because I’ve never thought the titles were right for the stories….

The sad story of the original Rain titles began with the moniker Rain Fall for the first in the series. It was a silly play on the protagonist’s name, and led to an unfortunate and unimaginative sequence of similar such meaningless, interchangeable titles: Hard Rain, Rain Storm, Killing Rain…

Now that I have my rights back and no longer have to make ridiculous compromises about these matters, I’ve given the books the titles I always wanted them to have–titles that actually have something to do with the stories, that capture some essential aspect of the stories, and that act as both vessel and amplifier for what’s most meaningful in the stories.”

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Barry Eisler himself has a fascinating background. The author upon whose novels the Keanu Reeves TV show is based was once a CIA agent, a technology lawyer and an executive. He has a black belt in judo and has earned numerous awards for his writing.

As previously reported by The Inquisitr, Keanu Reeves will not be involved in the Point Break remake. Reeves starred as FBI Special Agent John “Johnny” Utah, alongside Patrick Swayze as Bodhi, in the original 1991 flick.

The upcoming Keanu Reeves TV show project is so new that the Internet Movie Database doesn’t even have any information about it yet. However, fans looking for some insight on possible plot twists and characters would be well advised to check out Barry Eisler’s novels.

The Huffington Post reported that the beloved Matrix actor will portray a half-Japanese, half-American assassin in the Keanu Reeves TV show Rain.

[Image by Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc via IMDb]

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Neale Sourna's ProjectKeanu.com Article -- Seduce Her Like Keanu Reeves

A Project Keanu Article

Seduce Her Like Keanu Reeves

by Neale Sourna

Your first impression of Keanu Reeves was probably of him as Ted “Theodore” Logan of Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (movie and morning cartoon), then in Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey and, whoa, dude, as far as you’re concerned, that image stuck, until a bus trip on a Santa Monica blue bus shook it a little and until The Matrix Trilogy’s Neo made it okay to say, “Yeah, he’s cool, I like him. As Neo.” You want to be that image he presented, to be Neo, but not Ted!

Sweetie Ted, though, was nearly twenty years ago, dude; seventeen to be exact. There’s nearly forty different onscreen performances from Adventure to Lake House. Yet, you still won’t let the Ted image go and wonder why she gushes over what you call his “pretty” looks and “wooden” acting.

“You’re a fan!!” you say to me. That’s not the point, as if I’m blindsided to utter truth. I love Ed Asner, Bob Hoskins, and Samuel L. Jackson and no one chastises, pities, nor condones me for being an absolute fool for my choices there. So, let he who casts the first Pam Anderson….

The Ted “Theodore” Logan Seduction.

You saw a yutz you didn’t want to be mistaken for, as if liking him would make you him. However, you didn’t feel that way about Dumb and Dumber, go figure. You didn’t see or feel any of Ted’s endearing qualities, well, she did. Hell, she sees yours. You hope. She saw in him a cute, sweet-natured, joyous guy, who’s a great friend, and who even joyfully went to Hell (Bogus!) with friend Bill. She saw that Ted lets Bill be leader although Ted often suggests their next sensible action, but lets it sink in as Bill’s idea, and then pretends to follow. Y’know like she does with you.

Don’t believe me? You have an official excuse to do critical homework by watching both comedy installments again. Say it out loud, “I’m only watching for character interaction, dear love.” Good boy.

Ted is gentle, kind, and wholly ingenuous, he doesn’t blow smoke up his lady’s ass to prove he’s smarter than she, nor hard fronts on her for the amusement of his male friends; that was nasty, inconsiderate “Robot Ted” with the “robot chubby.” Plus, Ted is utterly devoted to his lady, and never strays, well, not within each ninety or so minutes of film. Hell, he came though Time for her, and when he left in a hurry he came back for her. Believe me, his lady noticed and so did yours.

The Neo “Mr. Thomas Anderson” Seduction.

Neo. Neo. Neo. Way before stepping forward with eye extinguishing black lenses, military boots, and an urban silk, western duel duster to shoot up a government lobby, followed with the most famous onscreen, backbend limbo of all time Reeves had long dropped his wide-ranging Method Acting character defining Ted traits of the pigeon-toed shuffle and not so dumb (think Marilyn Monroe) empty-headed sweetness to be Lucifer’s favorite son; a teen prostitute (Yes, you can say “hustler,” but the job is still prostitute.) a surfing FBI agent; an action junky SWAT officer; a lovesick ex-GI; and a vamp-fighting Victorian husband; oh, and one grief-crazed Danish prince on the side.

Our dear Neo, dauntless and relentless within the manufactured delusion of the matrix, is utterly humble and deferential outside of it in the natural world. Neo, to most of us, is the fighting guy, a superman flying priest revolutionary. Keanu Reeves’ Neo is our icon of cool and accomplished.

Oh, and Neo gets the hot chick who does wicked scorpion kicks, eagle lifts, shoots pointblank, and drives anything turbocharged. Plus, his hot chick, Trinity, has no eyes, literally, with those shades on, for anyone else.

That’s what you see, man: a cool, handsome, smart guy who goes from everyman nobody to The One who’s the most powerful of anyone; an unstoppable human killing machine, killing machine programs and delusional humans, alike, with his hot chick. A man who flies, stops bullets and swords with his hand, and does surgery sans scalpel better than a Filipino healer. Neo’s a next gen, more accessible and human “Terminator,” without that perplexing what’d-he-say? Austrian guttural accent.

She sees all of what you see, too, but you know how women are, she complicates everything by seeing all that stuff you’re blind and obtuse about. She sees...[more]