Live Action Cowboy Bebop

Lasbrook · 07-22-2008, 10:42 PM

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THE SKINNY: If anybody is in the mood for some exhilarating, long-anticipated, previously-unannounced breaking news about anime series COWBOY BEBOP, iF Magazine has the exclusive scoop for you.

We caught up with producer-extraordinaire Erwin Stoff at the NBC TCAs where he was promoting his upcoming updated-David-and-Goliath-based show KINGS. When asked about other projects he is currently working on, Stoff, let slip some very juicy news about a very beloved anime franchise.

“I’m developing COWBOY BEBOP for Fox, but doing it as a live-action film, so I’m working on that at the moment,” Stoff tells iF. “I’m really excited to be working on it, and it’s in the really early stages. We just signed it the other day.”

Before any of you BEBOP fanboys/fangirls get your skivvies in a twist about yet another questionable anime-to-human adaptation (see: DRAGONBALL), iF made sure to get an oath of fidelity to the original material from Stoff.

“I have such an enormous admiration for its creators, that our first and foremost concern is going to be a real degree of faithfulness to the tone of the movie, to the mix of genres, and so on and so forth,” he says. “When I met with them in Japan, one of the first things that I brought up was the experience that we had on A SCANNER DARKLY, and how hard we worked to remain faithful to Philip K. Dick, and that was our big concern here.”

For those skeptical about the casting possibilities, Stoff has the following to say: “Flak about choices is meaningless until people see the movie," he notes. "When people see the movie, then criticism has a place in it.”

Does Stoff think that American audiences that aren’t familiar with the anime will have trouble getting aboard?

“No, I really don’t think they will,” says Scoff. “I think they haven’t [gotten aboard] with the anime because it’s had limited exposure - it’s just been on Adult Swim, and so on. I think the ability to tell this larger frame - the ability to build a world that’s iconically American in its Western nature - I don’t think so at all.”

iFMagazine.com: Exclusive: LIVE-ACTION 'COWBOY BEBOP' MOVIE IS IN THE WORKS

Has anyone seen A Scanner Darkly? Was it a good adaptation?
Plz to be raising me from this pit of despair because all i can see is live action adaptation by FOX.

Buzzbeak · 07-22-2008, 11:22 PM

Some things are better left animated. Why do we have to remake every thing?

pinoy78 · 07-22-2008, 11:35 PM

WHY?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

The world doesn't need a live action Cowboy Bebop!

I can NOT facepalm enough.

optimus major · 07-22-2008, 11:48 PM

SON OF A B*TCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

that's it....my childhood has been throughly raped to the 10th degree

Wing alpha · 07-23-2008, 12:08 AM

I.....

Damn it

Ill give it a shot, this dont judge until seen policy of mine is really gonna end up burning me bad....

ZeroMayhem · 07-23-2008, 12:12 AM

I'd love another Cowboy Bebop animated movie, but this.....

Man it'll be hard to keep an open mind about this one. This keeps going through my head:

Bad Idea Jeans

Aberration · 07-23-2008, 12:12 AM

I'm not automatically against this, but I have two major concerns:

1. They're either going to have to drop Ed completely or change the character so much that she isn't Ed anymore. I can't see Ed working in live action as-is.

2. The soundtrack HAS to be Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts. Their music was a big part of what made Bebop great (which is why none of the mangas ever clicked with me).

karamazov80 · 07-23-2008, 12:25 AM

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Originally Posted by optimus major

SON OF A B*TCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

that's it....my childhood has been throughly raped to the 10th degree

Someone watched this show as a child?

Anyway, I think it is a stupid idea.

Lasbrook · 07-23-2008, 12:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Aberration

2. The soundtrack HAS to be Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts. Their music was a big part of what made Bebop great (which is why none of the mangas ever clicked with me).

This. I flat out refuse to see it if they dont get Yoko Kanno for the score. I listen to the bebeop OSTs at work all the time.

And to Karamazov, the show is 10 years old so i guess it's possible.

Soundwave.ca · 07-23-2008, 01:45 AM

sigh.....Needless to say I won't be holding any hope for this one. The anime was so awesome, Hollywood should find some other series to basterdize and leave Bebop alone. That and come up with some original ideas for a change.