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NEWS: Live-Action Cowboy Bebop Proposal Officially Announced

Proman wrote:

Not going to happen. No major American studio will risk being sued by hiring a composer known for plagarism.

Yoko Kanno borrows structures, as does every other composer out there, but is very good at making her own original music out of them. That's not musical plagarism.

John Williams lifts material directly from other pieces. That's plagarism. And he continues to have a thriving career.

Point is, Yoko Kanno's score is just as big a part of Cowboy Bebop. Imagine hearing a score by Hans Zimmer, James Horner, Danny Elfman, or your frequent Hollywood composer. You're gonna get wallpaper music w/absolutely no character that would be utterly forgettable.

This is a response to all those of you who didn't think I was serious. This isn't about borrowing themes from classical music. Kanno steals note for note. Entire songs. She's not good at covering her tracks either. There are blatant examples of that. I'm not going to list them for you, it's all out there. If you don't belive me, you simply don't know.

She was never called on it, but believe me, companies who invest real money into this kind of stuff will be wise. And they should be.

I am a huge movie score fan and collector. I have heard it all before. Even Zimmer is nowhere as bad. Borrowing structures from classical music isn't illegal. Stealing copyrighted works is. Yes, there have been cases of plagarism is that field too. Trust me it was never that bad.

The John Williams comment was simply stupid.

And yet, I enjoy Kanno's contributions. She does have good taste and she is a great musical producers. I still listen to her selections and enjoy them a lot. I just wish she was more honest, that's all.

Proman, I've heard all those comparison examples. Most of them are simply ludicrious, and many are similar because Kanno worked with those very musicians in the past and likely sampled with permission. It's just a bunch of overanalyzing wannabe iconoclasts and butthurt Kajiura fans with overactive imaginations.

Kanno doesnt "plagarize" any more or less than any classical or classical-style instrumental composer. Get over it.

Watanabe is attached to this project.

Therefore, I will watch it.

I just can't stand this american attitude. That something is not legit unless it's live action, barring, mostly, Pixar and Disney.

Instead of making a live action Bebop, they should have paid attention to the fact that there was already a Bebop movie, and a Bebop TV series, and both, especially the movie, should have been given wide exposure, and brought closer to people.

It's like this with any of these adaptions.

Like.. that Live action Eva. God, that better not ever happen. Instead, just show the new damned movies in a widespread theatrical release.

LOGIC AM NOT FOUND.

Nothing like a stone-faced, forty-four year old man playing an expressive twenty-seven year old man.

Hey, why not make Jet Black a five year old Chinese girl and Faye Valentine a fat man? Then we can make Edward a computer AI and Ein is a lizard.

Onizuka666, Firefly was cancelled because FOX screwed it up. They marketed it poorly, and showed the episodes out of order (they felt the pilot episode had too little action). It had nothing to do with Bebop, FOX is simply run by morons. They flat out admitted to hating Arrested Development, and when Futurama got the highest ratings ever for an animated pilot episode, they "rewarded" it by constantly changing its day/time-slot (AKA "show-killing" method).

In the end, though, I don't care if it bombs or not. I still have the original anime I can watch to remind me of how it was done best the first time around.