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

Well, it was produced by people knowing what they were doing as they owned and worked with those who were specialist with the characters. Also, there's multiple versions of the character, akin to most American superheroes. With Anime, there's pretty much but one interpretation of the character.
 
That's just silly. It's not like Steve Blum created Spike. He plays Spike in the English adaptation of the show and the character could just as easily exist without him. As far as I'm concerned, Steven Blum's opinion doesn't carry anymore weight than the opinion of Genaro Vasquez or Philippe Roullier (the Spanish and French voice actors of Spike, respectively).
 
Unless they do a series, they'd have to streamline alot. Like having the film start off with Spike and Jet as partners and then Faye, Ed and Ein as one collective group that joins them. I can see Faye maybe hiring the Bebop crew to protect the three of them, but having no actual money and intending to woo her way out when the time comes to run. Maybe have her and Ed as partners who have nabbed Ein and are being pursued by Vicious and his cronies due to some key information the dog holRAB (say, the bank codes to some massive fortune).
 
Eh, I'd rather they just do like the OAV did and take a page out of one of their random adventures. But I'm sure they'll keep the Vicious/Spike stuff fresh just the same.

Another reason this will work: this is one of the few scifi anime I can recall that doesn't bog itself down with tech jargon, so the casual audience should be alright with it.
 
Because you are a purist or something.

Should books be never be made into movies, because they can never translate the book exactly?

Well if the studio wants to make this movie, they will make it and Japanese creators won't care because Fox will, so you can complain or hope it turns out well. Or you can pray to God that this will get stuck in Development Hell. I really don't care, i just think some of these demanRAB are very silly, i could care less if this film is made, I'm not going to get upset or happy when this movie comes out. really it doesn't affect the original work. Like they say, the book is always better.
 
I am a purist, especially for the best anime ever (I said that just for you, Alucard ). Unfortunately, purists never seem to get what they want.

Books are a completely different matter. Books can tell what's going on, but they can't show it exactly, so movies can translate them in whatever way works best for them. Bebop and other anime show what's going on exactly as it is, and in a way that live-action can't show exactly.

I know it will be made, or get stuck in Development Hell, which I would prefer. If it does get made, I will probably watch the movie once just because I have to see what they've done with it, and maybe even buy the DVD to remind myself and anyone else why Hollywood shouldn't make films of great anime like that. But you are definitely right that it doesn't affect the original work, and I will always have the whole series and movie of the best anime ever, so I'm happy with that.
 
The majority doesn't think CB is completely perfect like you do, which is the basis of your whole argument.

Casting Reeves is bad, but bad casting doesn't make a work unadapatable, it means it will be undermined by bad casting, there is a difference.

Let me put it another way, assuming this film had a huge budget, had the best directors and actors working on it, why, in your opinion, would it still be unadapatable?
 
Well not to me but it's a opinion and obviously we differ on this. BTW, Steve Blum is only a year younger than Keanu Reeves FWIW.

Well I've not seen Constantine and I've never read the source material so I'm not one to judge on that one. However, did Keanu not work because of his age or because of his acting or something else. I'll admit that Keanu might not be able to pull it off - not being able to pull off a character happens to almost all actors. However, I don't think Keanu's age would be the main issue because Spike isn't suppose to look grizzled (which I think Constantine is), just world weary.
 
Still haven't found that old fan film. Did manage to find a page with a link to it, but the link is long since dead. No one around here remerabers? It was only five years ago.
 
As bad as the movie will end up being with or without Keanu, they should probably leave Ed out regardless. Both Edward's look and actions are really the only thing in all of Cowboy Bebop that remind you that you're watching a cartoon, and I'm sure that's something the studio wants to stay away from. Besides, many of Bebop's best episodes were the ones without Ed anyway.
 
And why, pray tell? I found the movie to be a strong adaptation of the book's overall themes and plot, and its willingness to draw inspiration from the source material rather than being chained down by it improved the overall effect rather than hindering it.

Actually, it turns out Moore didn't even watch the movie - he just wrote it off at once because of how From Hell and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen turned out.

So? Didn't he share some reasons that he was opposed to the idea, or are we just supposed to bow before his status in the community? He provided the voice for a character who had already been made for a show that had already finished airing in another country. Spike was given to him; he didn't create Spike himself. That puts him rather lower on the this-is-my-baby-so-hanRAB-off hierarchy.

EDIT: Is "A good live-action Bebop film cannot be made because Steve Blum says so" really the most substantial argument that you have?
 
All the more reason the movie should never be made.

And honestly, episode 24 had to be one of my favorites of the entire show.

Keanu and Erwin Stoff don't get it. Fox definitely wouldn't. Keanu acted like he got Constantine in that blunder of a performance when he talked all about doing things that were more "Constantinian" which was nonsense.

There isn't a feature story in Asteroid Blues. It was just a short little simple story. It's not meant to be a movie. That they think oh we are going to turn this episode into a movie just shows ignorant of the material they truly are.
 
The sad truth is, like the abysmal looking Dragonball movie coming out, CB would most likely be reduced to a cartoonish collection of action movie cliche's. All the subtle coolness that made the series interesting would be lost, and most likely replaced with; thinly defined caricatures, a meager thread of a plot-line, and trendy current music. There would be so many changes done to the source, to a point that it would scarcely reserable the original work in tone, or coherency.
 
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