1212 Entertainment Announced by Bebop Producer, Focused on doing LA Anime Adaptations

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http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-11-12/live-action-bebop-producer-reveals-1212-entertainment

It has begun.
How well Bebop is adapted will be an indicator on whether this company does anime justice imho.
 
I agree.

If Bebop flops, this company could be in for a long ride (incentive to make the adaptations more faithful and closer to the original content maybe?)

I'm hoping Bebop will be good but after Dragonball it's only natural my hopes wouldn't be to high on that right away.
 
I agree with what's been said, Bebop will prove if they even care about a lick about the source material. The last thing we need is another DBE. I only wish they could at least do an alright job with Bebop, if it enRAB up being as such, or better, I'll be sure to see it in theaters.
 
They better do good with Bebop; the show is the closest thing to a western anime out there. If they fail at making something so western stay true to the source material, then Hollywood has truly sunken low.
 
In my opinion, the best case scenario is that this movie never gets made and this company dies. The worst case scenario is that the movie gets the Dragonball Evolution treatment, and the company continues to do this with all the other best anime ever. The actual scenario will probably be somewhere in between these two, so I guess if the best case scenario doesn't happen, we can only hope that this movie is made well and that, if the company has to keep adapting anime, they all are, too. If it's obvious that the movie is going to suck, as it was with Dragonball Evolution, we all have to do our duty as anime fans and not support it. Don't watch it unless you really want to know how bad it is, in which case don't pay for it. That will only give the company the impression that they can keep doing that to anime and the movies will keep making money.
 
"Duty as anime fans?" How about fans of decent movies in general? This isn't specific to "anime" fans.



There's hundreRAB more stuff closer than Bebop.
 
The only other anime I can think of are GunXSword, Black Lagoon and maybe Lupin. Possibly GiTS and Baccano.

Yeah, anything else.
 
One of the great, undeniable attractors to anime and manga are that they are from the Japanese perspective. If that isn't kept in mind, then I really don't see a point in an American adaptation, espicially if they're just going to loose the elements that drew international fans to the Japanese domestic product in the first place.
 
Part of why I love anime so much is the stylized worlRAB in which they take place.

A world of Bebop where Spike is played by Keanu Reeves would be a joke and ruin everything they created.
 
Bah, terrible phraseology on my part.

Basically, if we wind up with another DBE, where a film forgets where it comes from (the mind of a Japanese man who has made his millions on poop jokes, in the case of Dragon Ball at least) and who its fanbase is (need not define).



Now, I've never seen CB in full, and I hear all the time at how it is some sort of 'western anime', but I would be quick to use such phraseology. It's influenced by western culture, but I think what makes it (and call other anime) facinating is that it is Japanese. It looks and feels like something you would not see come (typically?) from an American/Western production.

But what do I now...?
 
All I want is a decent flim adaptaion of the series, It does't have to be 100% faithful to anime. It just has to be above average flim that hasn't gotten the Dragonball Evolution treatment.
 
You forget that this might be good. I'm pretty confident that this will be good. The executives and writers seem to really appreciate the source material, and I'm quite confident that Bebop will be done well.
 
But why? I mean, the other stuff could be handled badly but Baccano actually takes place in America....oh wait a minute.....



....sigh...never mind, it would impossible to do those two as well as the anime.
 
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