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

[LondonFalls]

Typically, Manga have but one interpretation. I don't see a reason for a radically different DB or CB.

[erinl]

....This can't end well. It just cant..

Really if Cowboy Bebop did not have floating ships and such then maybe...but...no this is going to be horrible. Really I just can't see Bebop being a live action movie x_X.

[hustle swag]

I don't know about that. Cowboy Bebop isn't that hard to adapt.

[Terance]

Probably not the best cast in the world, but here's my try:

Spike: Robert Downey Jr.
Jet: Samuel L. Jackson
Faye: Jennifer Garner
Ed: Evanna Lynch
Julia: Natallie Portman
Vicious: Keanu Reeves

[lover22]

I'm having a hard time picturing which actors should be cast. The only person who comes to mind is Angelina Jolie as Faye.
....and Dakota Fanning might make a funny Edward.


Purists never get what they want because they are NEVER pleased with anything they get. Duh.

[babu d]

Oy. To be honest, these anime-to-live-action things seem pretty pointless. Part of the appeal of movies like Akira or shows like Bebop (and, to a lesser extent, Avatar, although that's not technically anime) is that they utilize the scope of animation to pull off crazy stuff that would either be really hard or nigh-impossible to pull off in live-action. Heck, some of the fights in Bebop or Avatar rival or even surpass some of my favorite live-action fights in terms of choreography and excitement. These adaptations just seem like such a pointless endeavor (particularly Akira and Avatar).

[doug l]

So do books, but things can changed when books are made into movies, that's why these movies are adaptions, making a literal adaption is almost impossible.

Of course DB and CB are different, one is way easier to make into a movie then the other, CB is about times more Hollywood friendly then DB, CB is in general more realistic then DB and more serious and thus way easier to bring to screen. That's like saying Batman and Spider-Man are the same because they are both comic books, they are very different and their movies reflect that.

[falling]

Asia Argento as Fay, assuming I wanted to see this movie. I love the series, but, I mean, do we really need to review the track record of live action based on anime?

[auggie]

I don't remeraber Funi.

Where's Joel? He may know.

[Amers]

You know, the best bet to make this work might be casting unknowns. Don't make it hinge on name value, make it hinge on raw acting skill, the story and the direction. Oh, and cast to the right ages of the characters. Don't cast anyone over 30 for Spike, Julia, Vicious or Faye, make sure Jet's atleast in his late 30s.

Oh, and make sure the outfits don't look like costumes. It should like real clothes, as warn in and beat up as everything else in the Cowboy Bebop universe. Cosplay doesn't film.

And, I'd guess their will be no Ed in the movie. The movie would likely be based off the heavier parts of the series, episodes in which Ed always happened to be basically absent anyway.