Nooooooo …
fox just baught the rights because of the recent anime cross over trend.
They are doing the Dragonball obviously but also leo decaprio and gordon levitt are to star in Akira.
Also Ghost in the shell…
But Bebop, please not Spike -_-
For some reason, I’ve always mused Lupin III being the easiest to swallow anime adaptation, simply because all it is James Bond with comedy.
Lupin III and Cowboy Bebop are like the same thing but instead of thieves they’re bounty hunters, but in the end each party is out for that big score. The art is very similar too.
I never noticed that before…
does anyone else think that doing adapations of anime into movies will bejust like the movies made from video games?
i also heard that keanu reeves is looking to play spike in the live action adaption which scares the hell outa me
on a side note i also expected lupin the III to be the first live action US anime
Its the keanu thing because the producer of most his films has baught the rights and is working on it.
I wont deny Im a big fan of Keanu because I think hes cool and just expect him to be Keanu and nobody else.
But to be Spike…maybe :sigh: .
But he has to pull off the comical Spike too.
I think its the fact hes tall dark and a martial artist.
Bebop pulled in alot of influences for their designs of characters. Lupin was a good source though eh 
I thought the first adaption was going to be the live action Evangelion with Weta workshop. I was waiting for that in College seeing all their artwork designs. Now im finishing Uni and nada…
This was the obvious next step from comic books… I pre warned my friends haha
You’ve lost your serious opinion of a movie for three years.
Excellent.
Idk… From what I’ve seen of the preview images for Dragonball. Could be a clusterfuck of biblical proportions. Some things just aren’t meant to be made into live action.
Evangelion won’t even be thought of seriously until about 2/3 years from now, The head of ADV said so in an interview for animenetwork.com or some other site like that.
Keanu can not grow a Jew 'fro, nor would he ever be to pull off a character like Spike.
Also, I think making live action versions of anime is a really bad idea. Part of what makes shows like Bebop ground breaking is the fact that they AREN’T live action, they’re created in a media that’s out of the norm for the subject matter and seriousness. Making shows like Bebop and Evangelion live action cheapens it.
Edit: omg I am so baked I had to edit that 3 times.
It’ll be better than thta Voltron script they have going around, talk about butchering a concept.
The American version of Voltron is so bastardized to start with I don’t think anyone could make it any worse.
Hey just cause i like the odd man brewing while kicking ass (constantine) doesnt mean i dont have taste in films.
Blade Runner
Old Boy
Lost in Translation
Brick
Chinatown
my fave films… that doesnt show a sad Keanu fan lol
But i agree all animes wont feel right made live action and Keanu will really suffer in the role of Spike.
Its mainly Bebop and the Miyazaki films they are doing thats scaring me.
I wasn’t aware someone was trying to make live action versions of Miyazaki films, unless I’ve misunderstood you. Or did you mean Disney’s horrible translation job of his films? I hated what they did to Spirited Away, it was never a love story, it’s a story of friendship and growth. I also don’t like that the subtitles for the American DVD aren’t really proper subtitles, they’re just the English script in text form on the bottom, and are obviously just for the hearing impaired. At least companies like Manga and ADV actually have proper translation for the subtitles…watch Ghost in the Shell, the old film, in Japanese with subtitles it’s quite a bit different, for instance in the very beginning, when Batou asks the Major what all the noise in her cyber brain is about, in the Dubbed versions she says, “Must be a loose wire.” In the Subbed version she says, “Must be that time of the month.”
BTW, here’s a trailer for Miyazaki’s newest film which is in theaters right now in Japan, it’s called Gake no Ue no Ponyo or Ponyo on the Cliff b the Sea:
The Wachowski Brothers just had to make Speed Racer, because they needed to buy more speed, so they could be inspired to make another movie about the camera spinning around Keanu Reeves.
Nothing will ever stop Hollyweird from ruining everything you love. So long as people are dumb enough to keep giving out their money to them, they’re gonna keep making bad movies.
Words cannot express the pure excitement I have for this film. If they butcher it, so be it. I’ve been waiting for more bebop for too long, I cant wait to see it.
Yeah I meant they’re doing a live action Kiki or its at least in early stages of development. But if they make one ghibli what stops them doing them all…
Yeah I want more Bebop too but maybe not like this lol
Shinichirô Watanabe mentions that he never said Spike was dead and has considered continuing series but is too afraid of the fans response to bring him back ha-ha!
And Ponyo looks like another Totoro style film! Bring it on!
Yea. I don’t think Spike is dead, either. He got through all that bs and the fight. But looking at things all realistically, he should have been dead before the end of the fight.
There was talk along time ago about the continuation of Bebop, but that it wouldn’t be about the usual crew, it was going to be about Ural Terpsichore, VT’s (from “Heavy Metal Queen”) husband, and would feature cameo’s of Spike since it would be set before the series.
I dunno, one of the reasons I like Bebop is because it ends, even the movie is an “episode” that transpired before the end of the series.
Bebop’s storyline wasn’t far fetched as far as live action movies go. Ever see a little TV series called Firefly? Very similar in scope and presentation.
That being said, only recently has Medium to Movie Medium conversions been anything to really talk about. I can’t think of a single video game to movie that has been any good (good being subjective… I liked Mario Brothers, though ti wasn’t, by any means, a good movie). Only now has Marvel started making good comic book movies. Spiderman and Punisher were the exception until this last year. Incredible Hulk (I thought the 2003 was amazing and really nicely done, but since the majority of the population hated it, I didn’t list it) and Iron Man blew me away. They were just incredible movies. No need to even speak of Batman Begins or Dark Knight. We all know how that franchise is going 
No it’s not far fetched, but what makes it different is that it isn’t live action.
And Firefly was a rip off of Outlaw Star.