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

...JUSSSSTTT, found that out, like 5 seconRAB before i saw your post.

Now that i think about it, im getting a tad worried. I dont know if Sony would let Wantanabe direct the movie, so for all we know, we could get "Killa" Ramsey for the part.

I... really dont know about Christian Bale as spike. He does fit the age, but spike is a skinny dude, so Bale would have to unbuff himself from the batman roles. Plus, spike has long legs, and i dont know that many guys who have long legs.

I really dont know who could fit Faye and Jet. I thought about Lacey Chabert for Faye (i do like her, alot), and Jet i thought about Patrick Stewart, but, jets not british, so thats a no...
 
Not really no, in terms of ascetics and story telling comics and manga are fairly different, not to mention the existence of cross cultural issues. One is harder to adapt then the others, plus comic book fans are a little more forgiving of Hollywood then otakus in general.
 
Just put a Jew-fro on Steve Blum. I've seen the guy, send him to the gym for a month and he could do it.

Now there's a guy who knows how to play Spike.
 
Spike Spiegel is definitely Jewish (at least half), modeled after Bob Dylan (hell, he even usesBaby Eagle/Jericho 941, an Israeli gun staple).

Fay is a tough one, but she's clearly not 100% Asian (though none of the cast is 100% anything). Her eye and hair color cannot be trusted, and it's hard to tell if her story about being Romani is true or not.

Jet is also a tough one, but he is odRAB are at least half-black. His skin tone is tough to pin down, but he's almost definitely a mixed race of some sort.

Ed is in the same boat as Jet, but we can infer that she's (I'd say at least half) Middle Eastern, considering we get to see her father. Nothing concrete, but it gives you an idea.

Point is, yeah, the entire world of Bebop is the definition of multi-cultural.
 
My heart is breaking.

20th Century Fox is doing Cowboy Bebop. My worst fears have been confirmed.

The Studio that gutted and ruined Dragon Ball, Fantastic Four, X-men, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and Alien, and Predator are now going to pervert and drool over one of the greatest stories and achievements ever.

I seriously want to vomit right now. Watanabe-san. I would advise you to stay as far away from this production as possible. Don't allow your name to be put on this. Don't answer phone calls from these people. Don't accept any checks.

Keanu, what can I say? You already ruined John Constantine, and you didn't feel that was enough. Now you have to ruin one of my most favorite and beloved characters ever. A character you have no business playing when you are pushing 50.

Keanu, Erwin Stoff, and 20th Century Fox -- to paraphrase Spike Spiegel, you are people I can never forgive.
 
This whole Avatar: The Last Airbender movie debacle has left me jaded with all of these anime/cartoon adaptions, I'll have to see more good stuff with this to change my mind about it.
 
That's a completely separate issue from "main storyline vs. random antics," but anyway... depending on how they play it, that doesn't have to be a problem. Look at something like the first X-Men movie for an example. You start out with a meeting between Rogue and Wolverine, two characters who have absolutely nothing in common, and then introduce them to a group of other characters who also have no real connection to them. Yet by the end of the movie you have a good idea of each character's individual circumstances (Rogue being scared and alone, Wolverine's lack of attachments to anything, the Cyclops/Wolverine/Jean Grey love triangle, Professor X's vision of the future), so that the characters who matter feel real enough.

Really, if you back up and look at Bebop, ninety percent of the time we're looking at the characters' personality and behavior, not their background. There's probably about six episodes that touch on Spike's background, two for Jet, two for Faye, one for Ed... but whenever the episode's plot doesn't specifically revolve around them, they're just "the laid-back philosopher," "the laid-back philosopher's put-upon-but-no-less-philosophical partner," "the foul-tempered greedy woman," and "the hyperactive tech-savvy alien who vaguely reserables a human girl." Particularly if they decide to go for multiple movies (not necessarily the case), they can put the characters' pre-Bebop lives on hold.

As far as getting the characters together in the first place goes, it could be done easily enough with a little creative tinkering. It's not necessary that Faye and Ed join up under the exact circumstances of their respective TV episodes, so long as the introduction is appropriate to their characters.
 
I'm . . . consciously optimistic about this one. I know Western filmmakers can adapt the world of Bebop flawlessly. More filmmakers are influenced by anime and manga than they were more than a decade ago, whether consciously or subconsciously.

Yeah, the Dragon Ball movie isn't filling me with confidence either, but this isn't the same Hollywood that made Fist of the North Star you know. I feel that if the script is right, they translate the world to near perfection, and they cast the right actors in the roles, then a Bebop movie could work.
 
Faye was probably from Singapore.

I don't trust Fox for a second with this project. I don't trust Stoff. And I definitely don't trust Keanu.

I will never forgive Keanu for ruining Constantine. Butchered that character.
 
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