Forum - View topicNEWS: Live-Action Cowboy Bebop Writer Peter Craig Interviewed
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Onizuka666
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Vash...fair enough, I made one or two mistakes there.....no one is perfect. Hands up high.
Read between the lines....and mistakes....and solve the puzzle of what I'm really saying. To summarise, all I'm saying is give it a chance. Feel free to pick apart the last post, but I said what I had to say there. As to whether some projects would work well as live action over others, this question always be asked. There's plenty of other media besides anime, that have such material. Doesn't matter who does what first or whatever. Many ideas never see the light of day due to Hollywood own stupidity, so books, animation etc are cheaper options with more creative freedom. |
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jdnation
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So Cowboy Bebop will have close involvement with Sunrise and Shinichiro Watanabe!!! That's awesome!!! I'm not too enthusiastic about Keanu Reeves, but maybe he can pull it off! After all Spike is rather soft spoken and rarely ever blows up for some emotional performance, and Keanu "knows kung fu." Keanu can even look like Spike, that constantine pic posted earlier is perfect! Just needs to grow his hair out a bit and let them mess it up. not too much, but moderately realistic for a nice balance as an unkempt kind of guy. The main gist is in who plays Jett and how well Keanu and that actor can play off each other on screen, their relationship and interaction with each other is the most important one.
To make the first movie work, let it cover the first 5 episodes up to Ballad of falling angels. Let the movie mainly focus only on Spike and Jet, let it begin with the 1st bloody mary ep with the cartel after the drug, transition that plot into a big casino owning cartel that has Faye Valentine cornered into working for them as a secondary character in the movie and culminate the plot leading into Spike versus Viscious in the Church as the climax. Leave further development of Faye and Ed's appearence for sequels. Maybe the dog too, but frankly we can do without Ein, or just have him in there from the start as Jet's pet running around the ship. Or just bring him into the picture alongside Ed. They should just get some skinny tanned Japanese tomboy looking girl to play Ed and speak in halk english/half Japanese. It's the only way I see that working... Ed can just be some computer wiz orphan hacker that is trying to escape with data stored in Ein that somebody wants... |
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Hon'ya-chan
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Megan Fox. 100% guarentee they'll cast her. That, or we'll get some hilariously stupid soundbites from her about how Faye "is a whorish slut that couldn't fight her way out of a paper bag." |
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tlsmith1963
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The article makes me excited about the film. They hired a writer who understands the show. With him involved, and also the Sunrise team, it makes me less nervous about Reeves. If Kanno does the music it will be amazing!
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Redbeard 101
Oscar the Grouch
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She doesn't have the breasts to be Faye. Hate to sound crude but it's true. Faye had the womanly sexy look going (like when she wore that nice dress)...not the tweener look at my short shorts as i bend over look. Plus Fox looks too young to play her. I think Reeves in terms of looks is perfect for it. I don't have near the low opinion on his acting as most of you either, but that aside at least he can look the role. That's one hurdle that has most often not been achieved with the live adaptations. I think this is much more likely to be a series they can do well with a live action movie. I mean it's not something that will rely on a shitload of special effects as in a true good DB adaptation. Lets face it, most series they've tried too do live action with have been series that would require mammoth budgets in terms of the CGI. yes the spaceships and space "scenes" for lack of better phrase would require CG but Hollywood can do spaceships pretty well by this point. Take any Star Trek movie from First Contact on as proof. Compared to most other series they've taken just on paper alone this one has more of a chance for a good live adaptation. I'm going to do what I've done with every other adaptation and just remain hopeful and save the "this is bullshit i know it" crap for after I've seen it. |
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RogueJedi86
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The interview was good , I like that the writer is a fan. He's less likely to mangle the series into a movie. Others above him could mangle it, but his original script should be true to the series. Now if only we could get some words from Keanu Reeves about this project. As far as I know, he hasn't said a word about the project to anyone since it got announced.
The interview said they're just now looking into production designers, and he's still working on a first draft, so I guess that means we've at least a year and a half out from a release date, maybe 2 years. Also, I'm Just gonna throw this out there, but I think Ron Perlman could do Jet Black. |
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jdnation
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I believe Keanu has spoken to MTV about it, he said that's he's pushing hard to make it work and he's a big fan of the show. http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2008/12/17/keanu-reeves-eager-to-do-something-good-with-cowboy-bebop-movie/ That early interview seems to suggest they're going to cram the entire story into one movie. I'd prefer if that made it a trilogy as my previous post outlined. The first film can be done as a good stand alone just by using the first 5 episodes of the show, of those only 3 matter, the first Red Eye drug 'Asteroid Blues,' the casino chapter Faye intro in 'Honky Tonk Women,' and the last 'A Ballad of Falling Angels' which bring in Viscious and Spike's past. It would be satisfying on its own even if we never see the other two movies. But I think it will do solidly and they'll get a 2nd and 3rd greenlit. The ending of Bebop will have more impact if its the end of a trilogy. Also it seems he and Watanabe are getting along quite well! He's a fan of Watanabe's work in Bebop and Watanabe is a big Matrix fan who also worked on two shorts for Animatrix! |
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Hon'ya-chan
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Yeah, don't hold your breath, given what Hollywood has done in recent memory. |
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