None of us anticipated somebody like Keanu Reeves to look in an animated brief based mostly on Armored Core, and it feels like Secret Stage’s govt producer was essentially the most shocked of all.
When Reeves was noticed in that first Secret Stage trailer, it clearly got here as a little bit of a shock – he is a giant title actor in any case, and even when he is in Cyberpunk 2077, I actually would not have guessed we might see him in an Armored Core animated brief. Funnily sufficient, although, when the present’s govt producer Dave Wilson was requested if there was a job for the actor, he thought it was only a joke. Wilson just lately spoke with GamesRadar alongside creator and Deadpool director Tim Miller, the place the 2 spoke about what it was like bringing Reeves aboard to the undertaking.
“We have not labored with him earlier than, though I might met him briefly,” Miller shared. “He is a big animation fan, and he got here all the way down to Blur [Studios] to speak to me a few film, one other film totally and mentioned, ‘What I actually need to discuss is Love, Demise and Robots. Are you able to inform me all about it? I really like animation.’
“I mentioned, ‘Effectively, we’re doing this different factor. Would you need to be in it?’ And he mentioned, ‘F**okay yeah.’ I mentioned, ‘Do you might have something specifically you need to play?’ And he is like, ‘No, simply put me in coach,’ primarily. So I requested Dave, ‘Should you had been to solid Keanu Reeves within the present, what character would he be?’ and at first, Dave thought I used to be joking that Keanu Reeves needed to be within the present.”
Wilson himself went on to notice that he remembered issues barely in a different way, being confused at first as a result of Miller “dictates into his cellphone”, receiving a textual content that reads “‘Hey, do we’ve got something for piano?’ And I am like, ‘What?’ After which I spotted after which, sure, I did not consider it.” Wilson shared that “Keanu truly got here on, it was fairly late within the collection, and we had all of the art work up on the partitions. So there weren’t that many episodes left to solid, and so then I’d begin getting movies from different actors, and I am like, ‘Tim, I haven’t got any roles left.'”
Clearly there was one fairly massive position left that they managed to fill with Reeves, and we do not have lengthy to attend to see how he fares, because the present will begin airing with its first batch of episodes subsequent week by way of Prime Video on December 10.
