Keanu Reeves To Remake Billy Jack

[Friday, March 8th, 2002]
Keanu Reeves is to star in a remake of the 1971 film Billy Jack, reports Variety.

Here is plot outline from IMDB:

Billy Jack is a half-Indian/half-white ex-Green Beret who is being drawn more and more toward his Indian side. He hates violence, but can't get away from it in the white man's world. Pitting the good guys, the students of the peace-loving free-arts school in the desert vs. the conservative bad guys in the near-by town, the movie plays definitive late-60s themes/messages: anti-establishment, make love not war, the senseless slaughter of God's creatures, the rape of society (figuratively and literally), two-sided justice, racial segregation and prejudices, and basic socialist ideals.

Billy Jack challenged the establishment and championed a group of runaway teens as well as the environment in an Arizona town.

The remake is being made by Danny DeVito's production company Jersey Films

He will make the film after finishing work on the two Matrix sequels.

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