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http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/12/17/keanu-reeves-confirms-live-action-cowboy-bebop-involvement/

Now you know all the Dragonball fans felt

Altough the last trailer didn't look quity as bad as the first one.

lets face it, nothing is holy anymore these days....
cowboy bebop, ninja scroll ....

sigh

Yea, it really sucks when something you loved so much as a child winds up on Taco Bell cups and Cereal boxes.

Sigh... Well I can't say I'm surprised. Five years after they fact here hollywood comes to ruin something better than any major studio has created in years. God, these people have no shame. No living human is cool enough to play Spike Speigal. No one.

I dont know about that... I have kind of thought for a while that Benicio Del Toro might make a good spike. One of my co workers who eats sleeps and breathes anime had to actually take pause for a moment and agree with me, and this is the kind of guy who gets worked up to frothing mad on just about anything anime related.

BloodofOrks wrote:Sigh... Well I can't say I'm surprised. Five years after they fact here hollywood comes to ruin something better than any major studio has created in years. God, these people have no shame. No living human is cool enough to play Spike Speigal. No one.

Seconded and one to infinity. What's next, Aqua Teen Hunger Force?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Why not just take the money and HIRE the Bebop Director and staff to make another animated feature film?

That would be a much better investment.

I really don't think hollywood has the skill to pull this off.

Its like someone burned down my childhood home and then sent me the tape

You'll get over it. Childhood memories fade over time. Also, cowboy bebop wasn't actually that good (but I'm not a believee that keanu is the antichrist, either.).

Hollywood hasn't had an original bone in its head since CB died and took the good ideas with him. they're ore interested in "remaking" or "reimaging" than innovating - although I hear Jim Cameron is still doing some pioneering work.

chromedog wrote:You'll get over it. Childhood memories fade over time. Also, cowboy bebop wasn't actually that good (but I'm not a believee that keanu is the antichrist, either.).

Hollywood hasn't had an original bone in its head since CB died and took the good ideas with him. they're ore interested in "remaking" or "reimaging" than innovating - although I hear Jim Cameron is still doing some pioneering work.

To be fair, I first watched CB about 5 years ago. And I don't hate Keanu Reeves in general, but he just lacks the charisma that Spike has.

The thing is, unlike Dragonball, CB seems actually feasible to transfer to live action without too much trouble. It would be more a matter of proper actors and scripting.

Frankly, I kind of thought that Matthew Fox could've made a decent Spike.

Now all they need is a live-action Evangerion movie and all the anime I used to watch as a kid will have been remade into awesome movies.

stonefox wrote:Now all they need is a live-action Evangerion movie and all the anime I used to watch as a kid will have been remade into awesome movies.

As a kid?

So, we're talking about last year, right?

I’m not normally the kind of guy to worry about Hollywood movies based on tv franchises, but this one strikes me as a pretty bad idea.

The novel thing about Cowboy Bebop was the way individual episodes followed different genre conventions. You got a noir episode followed by a Shakespearean tragedy. I’m not sure how a film can capture that schizophrenic style, or if they’ll even try. Everything else that going on was fairly standard anime stuff, smart ass lead who’s good at kicking people, big tough grim engineer guy, bratty girl prone to gratuitous fan service. This was fair enough given the innovation going on in the style of the show.

I suspect the heavily stylised elements will be ditched and we’ll get a bounty hunter in space who knows kung-fu, and a hot female lead. Anything else is up for grabs.

It doesn’t really matter though, if Highlander 2 didn’t manage to travel back in time to make the original a sucky movie, it’s unlikely CB the movie will manage it.

sebster wrote:I’m not normally the kind of guy to worry about Hollywood movies based on tv franchises, but this one strikes me as a pretty bad idea.

I think what Hollywood doesn't understand is that people liked CB because it wasn't Hollywood.

I really dislike anime. I find the animation style of the majority of it (not all of it) to be quite horrid, and the minimalistic nature turns me off.

That said, I think Cowboy Bebop is God's gift to cartoons, the single greatest television show ever created by man, and the pinnacle of story-telling. I adore that show more than anything.

And I really wouldn't mind Keanu as Spike.

There.

I said it.

I really wouldn't. As long as he's friendly/snarky Keanu, not overwhelmed-all-the-time 'whoa' Keanu, he'll be fine. He's got the looks and we know he has the moves. Honestly, getting the right Jet, Fay and Ed would be harder.


[EDIT]: Having said all of that, let me make my position clear on what I think the movie would be. The movie, regardless of who they get to star in it, will be terrible, because there is a 5th main character in Bebop - the music. Cowboy Bebop was a show about music, and without the music that was in the show, there is no Bebop. Removing the music from Bebop would ruin it like removing Spike or Ed or even Ein would do.

Hollywood will not get that.

They will not understand that music was the 5th character in Bebop and we'll either get techno, heavy metal, or needless classical stings.

And that will ruin it completely.

BUE

H.B.M.C. wrote:
[EDIT]: Having said all of that, let me make my position clear on what I think the movie would be. The movie, regardless of who they get to star in it, will be terrible, because there is a 5th main character in Bebop - the music. Cowboy Bebop was a show about music, and without the music that was in the show, there is no Bebop. Removing the music from Bebop would ruin it like removing Spike or Ed or even Ein would do.

Hollywood will not get that.

They will not understand that music was the 5th character in Bebop and we'll either get techno, heavy metal, or needless classical stings.

And that will ruin it completely.

BUE

Exactly.

Why did hollywood & DC stop killing, with its curse, Supermen with a Reeve based name. They stopped one short, one who karmatically deserves it for having, knowingly(yes he knows hes a bad actor),killed so many films.


H.M.B.C., Don't know if impossible to cast a living person. Was thinking John Cusak would ROCK as Spike and he understands the importance of music as a main character. Uses it in a lot of his movies.

Everything else, pretty much spot on but I might add. Keanu as Spike is a sign of the end. I hope it kicks off a freakin' revolution where the people string up those hollyweird Idiots.(Too Strong?)

I keep hoping that this is just some big joke and hollywood is performing the largest scale trolling in history. But its more likely that God is dead and that such things really happen, someone somewhere thought that people would go to see this, and somehow, someway, people are going to see it in record numbers anyway.

That is....disconcerting. Hopefully they get an actress that accurately matches the way that Faye's boobies perform! There I said it.

I heard the TB Y:The Last Man was being made into a film as well.

Somethings should just be left great and obscure to us and not pushed into the mainstream, because being a pseudo/faux nerd/geek is so trendy now-adays. I swear I'm going to change my wardrobe to include a mandatory daily allowance of pocket protectors, white breast pocket shirts, large black-rim glasses, suspenders, a bow-tie, and black high waters with penny loafers and white socks.

Using Keanu reeves for Spike is like doing a remake of Clockwork orange and casting Paulie Shore in Malcolm McDowells part.

H.B.M.C. wrote:I really dislike anime. I find the animation style of the majority of it (not all of it) to be quite horrid, and the minimalistic nature turns me off.

That said, I think Cowboy Bebop is God's gift to cartoons, the single greatest television show ever created by man, and the pinnacle of story-telling. I adore that show more than anything.

And I really wouldn't mind Keanu as Spike.

There.

I said it.

I really wouldn't. As long as he's friendly/snarky Keanu, not overwhelmed-all-the-time 'whoa' Keanu, he'll be fine. He's got the looks and we know he has the moves. Honestly, getting the right Jet, Fay and Ed would be harder.


[EDIT]: Having said all of that, let me make my position clear on what I think the movie would be. The movie, regardless of who they get to star in it, will be terrible, because there is a 5th main character in Bebop - the music. Cowboy Bebop was a show about music, and without the music that was in the show, there is no Bebop. Removing the music from Bebop would ruin it like removing Spike or Ed or even Ein would do.

Hollywood will not get that.

They will not understand that music was the 5th character in Bebop and we'll either get techno, heavy metal, or needless classical stings.

And that will ruin it completely.

BUE

See, my problem is that I don't think even the friendly/snarky Keanu is appropriate. Looks-wise, he's close, but he really just has a different swagger to Spike.

I agree with everything else in your post though. The producers would be stupid to not get Yoko Kanno and The Seatbelts to the music. It really did make the show (similarly to the music in Samurai Champloo). I could see them getting away without having Ed in the show, though.

My one hope at least is that they keep the fairly existentialist feel to the movie (ie. no "origins"....things just are - akin to how Christopher Nolan introduced Heath Ledger's Joker as absolute).

God I hate anime

So, this Cowboy Bebop thing....is it any good?



Seriosly, I've heard it's about some Sci-Fi Bounty Hunter and I like what I've heard of the music, but that's about it.

Anung Un Rama wrote:So, this Cowboy Bebop thing....is it any good?

It's largely considered to be the best anime of all time, (or at the very least in the top three) so it's definately something you'll want to check out if you haven't seen it yet. (You can watch the whole show and the movie on you tube)

Snark, better then Macross or Gundam?

Well, as long as there at it, why not do Akira with Paul Walker and The Rock, perfect casting. Either way, I wont be seeing this movie. Its sad enough that they are even making it, but its worse when they make money.

Why is it called Cowboy bebop?

Because Cowboy Rocksteady was already taken