'Tis the season for live action anime adaptations. Already on the 'coming soon' list are Spielberg's spin on Ghost in the Shell, DiCaprio's Akira and Tobey Maguire's Robotech and now you can add to the list a 20th Century Fox-produced live action version of Shinichiro Watanabe's Cowboy Bebop.
Now, Bebop is a show that could work beautifully in live action if done correctly and rumors of a live action version have circulated for years. When Watanabe was here in Toronto for the Worldwide Short Film Festival earlier this summer I put the question of a future live action version to him directly, to which he just smiled and commented that "That would be up to Hollywood." And apparently Hollywood says yes. With further questioning Watanabe also spilled that he is currently preparing new animated and live action projects though he would not comment at all on what the new projects were, which at least opens up the possibility that he may have a hand in the Hollywood Bebop.
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If you want live-action, you could just watch Firefly. That show has always had a Cowboy Bebop-ish vibe for me.
This could very possibly not completely suck. It has a much better chance than Akira or Dragonball. I always thought a live action Bebop could work. I hope this actually ges made.
i dont even know what to think of this. All I can think of is... it's going to suck. Keep it as a damn anime........ it's enough for me.
Sigh, would it be too much to ask for some original stuff? I love me some cowboy bebop, I truly do, but I already have the dvd collection and the movie. I don't need to see it again, rehashed and watered down.. They could take the money and I dunno, ask Watanabe too create something new and original for them.
Iron Man,TDK, Spiderman,Superman are not anime, sorry....
Rhythm-X, that was hilarious. :cheese:
And, unfortunately, probably correct. :grrr:
Even after the disaster that was Speed Racer and what looks like complete ass Dragonball, are they really going through with this?
Is it really THAT hard to come up with original material, Hollywood?
Like "The Persuaders" in space!
If this happens it's going to suck.
... I don't know what to say. The feeling of impending doom is overwhelming me right now.
*sigh*
"Yoko Kanno ripped (or maybe we should talk about remaking here...) a huge amount of her work from other artists and I’m a bit pissed off about that"
[citation needed]
Hm, never heard those plagiarism accusations before. I checked some of the songs out listed on that site, but to me it just seems another case of people who aren't too musical themselves not hearing the difference between two songs from the same genre. Obviously Yoko Kanno was inspired by a lot of different music from the past, you have to be if you make such diverse music. I still prefer that over bands that find "their own sound" and then just make an entire album with songs that all sound the same. Other comparisons on that list are just ridiculous. I mean "Call Me, Call Me" from Cowboy Bebop a ripoff of "Bittersweet Symphony"? Now they're just stretching it.
Many of them are definetly a stretch, most likely because people started to look everywhere for matching tunes.
However comparing something like "cowboy bebop - want it all back" and "imperial drag - zodiac sign" (youtube has this) reveals some really disturbing similarities. There was a bit more extensive list somewhere, but I can't remember where...
I guess this is partially why I had the "damn, this sounds familiar"-feeling when watching all those shows. Thankfully "Kanno's" stuff in general has really fallen in quality lately and I don't care much for it now.