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NEWS: Sunrise: Keanu Reeves' Enthusiasm Clinched Cowboy Bebop Deal

Wrial Huden wrote:

...and the dog.

They need Ein. Maybe they can hire the Top Dog from one of them Kennel Shows to do the job.

But they need to get someone else to play Spike.

Anything BUT Keanu Reeves!

ROBERT DOWNY JR THANK YOU!!

That's my pick for Spike. 8O

yojimboray wrote:

After Speed Racer, The Legend of Chun Li, and reviews on Dragonball: Evolution- the "complainers" have a right to be pessimistic. It's people like you who swallow hook, line and sinker everything the studios throw your way that keep them in business despite the mediocre product they continue to churn out!

Speed Racer was extremely faithful to the TV series, and to the anime medium in general.

If anything, Speed Racers failure will ensure future producers will americanize their anime adaptations as much as possible.

Anything BUT Keanu Reeves!

ROBERT DOWNY JR THANK YOU!!

That's my pick for Spike.

Anything BUT Keanu Reeves!

ROBERT DOWNY JR THANK YOU!!

That's my pick for Spike.

Even though this appears to be developing well I'm not sure I would actually go to the trouble of seeing it; I mean if it's just Bebop in live action, what's the point? I think that's where a lot of my personal apprehension comes from; the fact that even if they do a bang up job I've been there and done that. I would be more likely to go back to the original if I wanted to experience it again. For that reason I hope they take a risk and do something to reel me back in...maybe an alternate universe Bebop or something.

If I'm not mistaken, this movie is to be based on the "Red Eye" episode called "Asteroid Blues" which is the very first one. Ein doesn't show up until Session 2, Faye until Session 3, and Ed until Session 9, so having them included in this movie would be unnecessary.

yojimboray wrote:

After Speed Racer, The Legend of Chun Li, and reviews on Dragonball: Evolution- the "complainers" have a right to be pessimistic. It's people like you who swallow hook, line and sinker everything the studios throw your way that keep them in business despite the mediocre product they continue to churn out!

Speed Racer was extremely faithful to the TV series, and to the anime medium in general.

If anything, Speed Racers failure will ensure future producers will americanize their anime adaptations as much as possible.

Quote:

"If the script or the casting is terrible, the live-action film adaptation will not be approved."

Now that would make it so much sweeter.
But then again the Japanese may approve of Keanu because his is indeed a big name (even though that doesn't say a lot for his acting skills).

I'm not worried about the music though. Even if they don't end up taking Kanno on board (which IMO is the likely outcome), in keeping with the original work I trust the studio would at least go for something Jazzy with the occasional rock/country.

However, I seriously do hope that they keep the original Tank! or at least do some variations of it. I mean, barring licensing problems, there's just no reason for them not to use such a catchy, distinctive and cool-as-all-hell trademark from the series.

Hon'ya-chan wrote:

They need Ein. Maybe they can hire the Top Dog from one of them Kennel Shows to do the job.

I'd actually be willing to watch the movie if a dog played Ein. At least that way we'd see if Fox actually is doing the job right by putting the proper characters in.

Wrial Huden wrote:

...and the dog.

They need Ein. Maybe they can hire the Top Dog from one of them Kennel Shows to do the job.

But they need to get someone else to play Spike.

revilenigma wrote:

samuelp wrote: Heck, done right and I see this film getting an oscar nomination for costume design. There was a lot of great fashion in cowboy bebop. no way they would give an oscar to a movie based on a anime.

Well, I did say _nomination_.... not winner.

If they go "emo" with the music, I will be so annoyed! They need to use Kanno's music. It's a big reason why I became such a CB fan in the first place. The film would be so wrong without her music.

However, I seriously do hope that they keep the original Tank! or at least do some variations of it. I mean, barring licensing problems, there's just no reason for them not to use such a catchy, distinctive and cool-as-all-hell trademark from the series.

Hon'ya-chan wrote:

Wrial Huden wrote: ...and the dog. They need Ein. Maybe they can hire the Top Dog from one of them Kennel Shows to do the job. But they need to get someone else to play Spike.

I admit i can't see why there's so much hand-wringing over "casting" Ein. (i.e. real dog or CGI?) It's not like Welsh Corgis are endangered species, right? The only "issue" i see is getting Ein to hiccup and hop funny (straightforward sound editing and there's where greenscreen or CGI would come in) for the Mushroom Samba adaptation--if "live-actioning" this is even necessary (standalone story not relevant to the individual character stories nor the grand Spike vs Vicious story arc).

Also, to weigh in on Keanu...it's not like Spike Spiegel is a multi-hued palette of emotional range; he usually comes off as quite aloof, and even when he's feeling more intense than that "inside", the facade of cool indifference does a decent job of hiding that. Are we implying that Keanu can't handle an emotional spectrum of, i dunno, two or maybe three shades? This is hardly a full-blown endorsement of the man on my part. I'm just withholding judgment until further notice. Nor do I particularly speak or think highly of his acting resume up to this point, BTW.

So let's say, the Bebop went to Earth, right? Met the other crew, then when next they passed by Mars, the Red Eye people were waiting for them. See, I already wrote a scenario for them.