COWBOY BEBOP Going Live Action

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1. Mack 07/23/2008 @ 7:07am

   Please don’t suck, Please don’t suck, Please don’t suck, Please don’t suck, Please don’t suck, Please don’t suck, Please don’t suck, Please don’t suck, Please don’t suck, Please don’t suck, Please don’t suck, Please don’t suck, Please don’t suck, Please don’t suck, Please don’t suck, Please don’t suck!

2. Opus 07/23/2008 @ 7:15am

   If you want live-action, you could just watch Firefly. That show has always had a Cowboy Bebop-ish vibe for me.

3. brbro4 07/23/2008 @ 7:27am

   This could very possibly not completely suck. It has a much better chance than Akira or Dragonball. I always thought a live action Bebop could work. I hope this actually ges made.

4. kinkybob 07/23/2008 @ 7:38am

   i dont even know what to think of this. All I can think of is… it’s going to suck. Keep it as a damn anime........ it’s enough for me.

5. CheechWizz 07/23/2008 @ 8:42am

   Sigh, would it be too much to ask for some original stuff? I love me some cowboy bebop, I truly do, but I already have the dvd collection and the movie. I don’t need to see it again, rehashed and watered down.. They could take the money and I dunno, ask Watanabe too create something new and original for them.

6. kungfueurotrash 07/23/2008 @ 8:46am

   Please don’t let it be in the same vain as the horrible remakes of those Asian horror movies… We all know that didn’t translate very well… I just hope live action is as faithfull to the anime as the likes of Iron Man, TDK, Spiderman,Superman....

7. kungfueurotrash 07/23/2008 @ 8:47am

   Iron Man,TDK, Spiderman,Superman are not anime, sorry....

8. Rhythm-X 07/23/2008 @ 8:58am

   “This could very possibly not completely suck.”

   In Bizzaro World, perhaps.  To think they won’t ruin this completely is utter blind, unjustified faith.  This is horrible news.

9. Rhythm-X 07/23/2008 @ 9:21am

   Top Ten Ways Hollywood Will Destroy Cowboy Bebop

   - No Yoko Kanno

   - Spike and Faye shack up

   - Elimination of any quiet moments

   - “I dumb down for my audience and double my dollars” - Jay-Z

   - Has anyone seen the stills seeping out of Fox’s DRAGON BALL?

   - Jazz isn’t popular, music “upgraded” to the vile output of some American Idol alumni.

   - Bad CGI Ein!  Bad!

   - Too literal when it ought to diverge and too divergent when it ought to be literal.

   - No Smoking on the Bebop

   - John Woo homages that worked in animated form will look played out in live action.

   Anyone who thinks this isn’t going to blow chunks is delusional IMHO.  I wonder when they’ll sign Brett Ratner to direct?

10. Ard Vijn 07/23/2008 @ 9:53am

    Rhythm-X, that was hilarious.
    
    And, unfortunately, probably correct.

11. Swarez 07/23/2008 @ 10:36am

    Even after the disaster that was Speed Racer and what looks like complete ass Dragonball, are they really going through with this?

12. Rhythm-X 07/23/2008 @ 11:11am

    SPEED RACER was great, and if its failure discourages Fox from making this Cowboy Bebop movie, then we should actually consider using it as the basis for a religion.

13. Mike 07/23/2008 @ 11:30am

    Is it really THAT hard to come up with original material, Hollywood?

14. Ard Vijn 07/23/2008 @ 12:34pm

    Like “The Persuaders” in space!

15. ChevalierAguila 07/23/2008 @ 1:29pm

    If this happens it’s going to suck.

16. BlackIrishBastard 07/23/2008 @ 8:31pm

    ... I don’t know what to say. The feeling of impending doom is overwhelming me right now.

17. momodotcom 07/23/2008 @ 9:54pm

    *sigh*

18. fabool 07/24/2008 @ 10:21am

    Strangely I’m not that bothered about this news, although that’s probably just because I lately discovered how Yoko Kanno ripped (or maybe we should talk about remaking here...) a huge amount of her work from other artists and I’m a bit pissed off about that.

    Anyway, this will in all likelihood suck, as any other remake would - end of story.

19. Rhythm-X 07/24/2008 @ 12:37pm

    “Yoko Kanno ripped (or maybe we should talk about remaking here...) a huge amount of her work from other artists and I’m a bit pissed off about that”

    [citation needed]

20. fabool 08/03/2008 @ 12:08am

    Sorry, forgot about this whole thread.
    Just google something like “Yoko kanno plagiarism” and you should end up with quite a few threads that discuss the matter with samples and all. Some of the stuff could be thrown into the category “inspired by”, but some are just straight copies, which is just too bad…

    Here’s one of the first search results with a small list (there’s more in some ongoing threads I think): http://www.fictionjunction.be/2006/10/20/the-shocking-truth-about-yoko-kanno/

21. Geert Jan 08/03/2008 @ 4:19am

    Hm, never heard those plagiarism accusations before. I checked some of the songs out listed on that site, but to me it just seems another case of people who aren’t too musical themselves not hearing the difference between two songs from the same genre. Obviously Yoko Kanno was inspired by a lot of different music from the past, you have to be if you make such diverse music. I still prefer that over bands that find “their own sound” and then just make an entire album with songs that all sound the same. Other comparisons on that list are just ridiculous. I mean “Call Me, Call Me” from Cowboy Bebop a ripoff of “Bittersweet Symphony”? Now they’re just stretching it.

22. fabool 08/03/2008 @ 9:43am

    Many of them are definetly a stretch, most likely because people started to look everywhere for matching tunes.
    However comparing something like “cowboy bebop - want it all back” and “imperial drag - zodiac sign” (youtube has this) reveals some really disturbing similarities. There was a bit more extensive list somewhere, but I can’t remember where…

    I guess this is partially why I had the “damn, this sounds familiar"-feeling when watching all those shows. Thankfully “Kanno’s” stuff in general has really fallen in quality lately and I don’t care much for it now.

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