The Official Live-Action "Cowboy Bebop" News & Discussion Thread

^I've come to the conclusion that the series and movie are so great that it will always have a certain legacy that even a crap Hollywood movie can't sully.

...therefore, I'm okay with this movie. It could be bad, or good, or mediocre. It'll be interesting to see how it turns out.
 
What about Iron Man or Dark Knight? This has nothing to do with those properties. They aren't Cowboy Bebop.




Speed Racer. Dragon Ball. Keanu Reeves.
 
Alright, I'm going to say this now and get EPIC flammed for this but...


I think this will do much better then dragonball, and will probably do well.

*hides under shield*
 
I think that Dragonball: Evolution will do so poorly for Fox that they'll abort this project well into its infancy.

Of course, most of the company's movies have been doing so badly that we may be looking at the end of the road for Twentieth Century Fox in the upcoming years.
 
Dragonball Z:

Saiyan arc: 35 episodes
Namek arc: 72 episodes
Garlic Junior arc: 10 episodes
Cyborg/Cell arc: About seventy episodes
Boo: 91 episodes

Oh my!

EDIT: Half of the charm of Bebop is the animation and the things animation as a medium allows, as opposed to live action. FOX can throw whatever money they want at the project but I don't think this film can ever have what the animated version has. And truthfully, playing with the fans like this is an even more dangerous game.
 
So seemingly, animation isn't good enough these days?

Batman and Iron Man are franchises that are born from a medium which allows multiple writers, art styles, and canons. With a show like Bepob you only have that one continuity, excluding any Manga adaptation. It's far easier to accept a live action Batman because there's not one version of the character.
 
You're acting severely unreasonable and quite frankly hysterical towarRAB anyone making a point that a Bebop film might not be completely awful.

He was using both of those properties as examples of how Hollywood can adapt a comic book/anime/etc property right. Both examples are entirely relevant, whether you want to admit it or not, especially since they were both erabraced by fans and the mainstream alike. Just because Bebop is an anime series and not a comic book, doesn't make it some amorphous separate entity incapable of being adapted to live film.

I love Bebop more than just about any animated series out there, and understand where you're coming from. I am very hesistant about this project, and feel that both Reeves and the screenwriter sound like awful choices, and would rather not have a film at all if it isn't done right.

But to suggest that no matter the circumstance, a decent adaptation is impossible is just causing you to show your frothing fanboy colors.
 
It's kinda silly to take something like this as a personal affront. It could turn out to be a dog, but there's no (good) reason that it can't end up awesome.
 
I feel I am only being rational with regarRAB to who is currently holding the keys.
Since Iron Man and Dark Knight are NOTHING at all like Cowboy Bebop nor is their source material close to Bebop at all, I do not feel they are relevant.

Frothing? Yes. Fanboy? Yes. I think that's the appropriate response when I look at garbage like Dragon Ball Evolution.

The reason I think it's impossible is because it's already perfect. Any live action movie would simply be an inferior and flawed imitation.
 
Well do you know this guy had no influence on The Matrix or A Scanner Darkly? Because if he did, that would be kind of fitting for him to be working on this, but much more fitting for the real directors of The Matrix, the Wachowski brothers, to direct it themselves, since the director of Cowboy Bebop, Shinichirō Watanabe, directed 2 of the short films in the Animatrix. But if this guy just comes along to bring Keanu with him, that sucks, because Spike & Jet's Excellent Adventure would be almost as bad as Cosby Bebop.
 
"Dying" is perhaps hyperbole, what I am expecting is massive restructuring in a few years and perhaps a new creative direction.

Note that when I say "Twentieth Century Fox" I am referring to the movie company only. They are not synonymous with the Fox Network, Fox Searchlight, Fox News, or any other portion of News Corp.
 
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