Forum - View topicNEWS: Keanu Reeves: Live-Action Cowboy Bebop Not Likely to Happen With Me in It
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Keonyn
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You quickly learn in these threads that a lot of people read little of what's being said and instead prefer to simply inject their thoughts based on what they assume was said. It's an article about a western actor and western studios so people are just looking to get in their shots and one-liners (because prejudice from a fanbase that often laments the prejudice directed towards it makes sense). |
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silentjay
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The Star Wars prequels were so cheap because Lucas wasn't paying the ILM premium that outsiders do. This is the other reason why Disney wanted Lucasfilm, because now the biggest SFX house in the business is in-house, and SFX budgets just got a whole lot cheaper. Serenity, as great as it is, looks like it was shot for $40 million, using TV quality renders and stock locations around SoCal with a lens filter. Also, there's a word called hyperbole. |
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GATSU
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silentjay: Well, Jurassic Park cost $63 million, and Lucas wasn't involved, so I still don't get it.
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P€|\||§_|\/|ast@
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The cost of the script, I think, has more to do with who the actor its for than anything else about the movie. Writing a script for a big name Hollywood actor just costs more than writing a script for a newbie no-name. It's kind of like if you hire someone to write a book for you. You pay for how well you think your book is going to sell. A book with a big name behind it like Stephen King is automatically going to sell a lot, so you (if you're King) pay for an expensive, well known writer.
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faintsmile1992
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Mmm... I can't say I'm concerned about Hollywood adaptations of anime. Besides my preference for the 2D art style, the culture shift would miss the point. American art house cinema might pull it off, but not big Hollywood, and only Hollywood has the budgets for something like this.
I remember the talk about a live action Akira that not only moved the setting to the USA, which is understandable enough, but was no longer to be a teenage coming of age story, therefore missing the entire point. It says a lot about my disinterest that I don't even remember whether it went ahead or not, or what the production status is. It was just that they'd cast two old men as a 15 year old and a 17 year old, and I could tell something was amiss... It can be fun to pretend you are casting a live action anime, but aesthetically fantasy and science fiction can look better in stylised 2D anyway. Seeing Samuel L. Jackson in a live action Afro Samurai would feel wrong because live action could hardly capture the surreal stylisation. Some people overlook this problem. Cowboy Bebop is actually one of the better options to adapt into live action given its western references and its setting, but I still have to wonder if Hollywood would miss the point. |
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Joe Carpenter
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brofist! 
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RAmmsoldat
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STATIOOOOOON! |
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Smallpox
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Wooden "actor"
OLD wooden "actor" Did you read Johnny Mnemonic? Awesome story. Keanu's movie sucked like the vacuum of space. His ridiculous acting in Bram Stoker's Dracula was appalling. I'd rather drown in a vat of my own filth than watch his movies. Spike needs to be played by someone with TALENT. |
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SpacemanHardy
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mdo7
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@Spacemanhardy: I've already flagged/reported on this post.
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enurtsol
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Smallpox
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I just got online again after losing everything I owned,the chunk of island it was on and several dear friends in a HURRICANE/TYPHOON/CYCLONE several years ago so this thread was new to me. Knee-jerk condemnation is a sure sign of troglodytism.
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enurtsol
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Our condolences and welcome back. Still, if a thread is too old, even if ya feel like responding, ya just gonna have to let it go. |
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