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

[littledogcb]

Well maybe a cast of unknowns would be great but I think that maybe Abigial Breslin would probably fit the bill as Ed since she IS one of the most important merabers of the team...to me at least.

[pbleeds99]

DB's easy to make into a film, however not into a generic one. With CB--while more realistic--it's also highly stylize, if I remeraber correctly.

I'm at least willing to give this film a trailer.

[Viash V]

Stylized gun play is well within Hollywood's realm, haven't you seen the Matrix or Wanted? That's easy for them and CB has far less cross cultural issues then DB. Heck not only is stylized gun play within Hollywood's realm its within their comfort zone.

DB has stuff that is way out of Hollywood's realm and comfort zone. First its based on Journey into the West, a story not a lot of westerns are familiar with and it deals with things that are hard to translate to screen, like planets blowing up, super ultra transformations and ultra stylized kung fu fights.

CB is way more Hollywood friendly then DB.

Now you asked why are these films are being made, its simple, the studios are trying to make money, they want a pre-established story with an existing fan movement, so there is a greater of chance of success, in their minRAB.

Ultimately its up the Manga companies to decide what do with franchises, they can ignore Hollywood and thus ignore the dump trucks of money Hollywood can bring to their house, I'm not sure that's likely, I would assume most of them like money. They just sign over the rights and let the studios do whatever they want, ensuring a high likehood of a bunch of really crappy movies based on Manga, until Hollywood simplely loses interest or they can take a creative interest in these movies and try ensure they are somewhat faithful and as well as good. It is also the responsbility of the Manga companies to ensure thier characters are treated right by hollywood.

[lalalove<3]

The mere idea of Reeves playing Spike Spiegel makes me sick.

The guy in in his 40's, and he totally butchered Klaatu in The Day The Earth Stood Still. He butchered and totally misrepresented John Constantine. Keanu Reeves is a terrible fit for this role.

Not to mention, he's like 20 years older than Spike.

[lax4life]

"bouncy"?


she look flat to me unless you are talking about Mai

[johncoolgun]

Keanu Reeves as Spike?

[Wilko]

Edward's character might be a little hard to adapt into live-action, though. She's pretty "bouncy," for lack of a better word...

[chima_mass5]

When I saw the title of this thread, I assumed this would be a Japanese production (which wouldn't be too bad). I can't really see an American live-action version of Japanese animation working well. I remeraber someone once said a live-action version of Bebop would be too similar to Serenity.

[wite boi]

Too bad.

[...shay sinster...]

Cowboy Bebop could work. Easily. No one has any super powers, as a matter of fact, if you give the lead actor special training(kind of like Toby Maguire and Christian Bale got from Spider-Man and Batman Begins) and get him used to a fighting style, and Spikes hand to hand corabat moves are a piece of cake. Gunplay seems to be essentially easy these days, so I wouldn't list that as a problem. The main problem is getting the right person to play Spike. And Ed. Ed will not be easy to cast. Spike's hair make's him hard enough to cast.