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

Someone that is older can play younger. But Spike is still a young man in his 20's. Keanu Reeves isn't. He's like 46.



That's kind of my point because I feel the same thing has happened here. When Steven Blum played the character he was much closer in age to Spike than Keanu is now.
 
As cool as this sounRAB, I don't want the movie[if it borabs] to automatically make the anime look bad, and in turn, turn people away from ever watching the original. We know CB as this amazing show and I'm afraid the publics perception of it [or at least, of those who haven't yet seen the anime] will change. It's like when I saw The Davinci Code in theaters. My father hated it and automatically assumed that the book was equally unentertaining, when in fact the film was only a bad representation of it.
While I want to be optimistic for this movie, I don't want to see it go down the drain as another failed attempt.
Pleaseee work out. Pleaseee be a hit. Pleaseeee nobody screw this up.
 
I see a ray of hope in that they're actually bringing Watanabe into the project. They want this to be a good, yet faithful movie. If they're actually putting effort into the production, then I see reason for optimism, Keanu or no Keanu.
 
Assuming this thing doesn't fall into development lirabo, it could actually be pretty cool. Casting would be tricky, though. Most American Bebop fans are used to the awesome dub actors. So even if the actors look perfect, they'll sound "off".
And Ed will be a tough character to do in live action. The movie would either have to tone down her weirdness, make her older, or eliminate/change her completely.

And they HAVE to get Yoko Kanno on board! The music was just as much of a character as Spike and Faye were and a Bebop movie would be incomplete without it.


I don't think it'll be hard to re-tell Bebop's story in a 2 hour movie because the series was pretty much 80% filler episodes (it was AWESOME filler, but filler nonetheless).

And I bet they'd rather do a re-imagining of the story than a straight-up adaptation, anyway.
 
Granted, I don't think Toriyama cares much about Dragonball anymore. He did let GT happen.

Regardless, I don't want this thread to devolve into a Keanu Reeves hatefest. So far, you guys have been civil, but don't stray too fart, okay?
 
A serious R-rate CGI cartoon would would have no audience in the US, espepecially with without famous people in the voice cast. the movie would be aimed at making a lot of money, so your plan doesn't work.

Besides with today's special effects tech, can you really say that CB is not feasible?
 
I have too agree. Good rent the B-movie "Space Truckers", it has the same vibe and feel at the Cowboy Bebop episode "Heavy Metal Queen".

A Live Action Cowboy Bebop can be done as long as those making it are fans of the Cowboy Bebop anime series/anime movie.
 
I somehow missed seeing this topic for the nine pages it's been up. I had no idea someone wanted to touch "Cowboy Bebop." I'd rather they stick to DBZ; Cowboy Bebop is way too sophisticated to adapt to a mass redneck audience.

What's bothering me most in my imagination right now is the TV trailer commercial I'm seeing of generic action shots, dim lighting, some guy floating in midair in slow-motion while firing weapons, and CG, and the name "Cowboy Bebop" in a different font at the end. "Edward" will appear for a glimpse in this trailer but will be this frightened little child actor moppet clutching a teddy bear in a dumpy apartment.

I could just ignore it, but it'll be hard to avoid. The marketing machine blankets all prime-time TV.
 
We only think Jet is black because his US VA is black. And Ed is probably part Turkish rather than middle eastern (cue discussion of how the Anatolian plateau is or is not part of the middle east or what happens if Ed is born on the Edirne side). Plus I thought the creators never really imagined Spike as Jewish until it was pointed out to them.
 
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