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The Japanese animation studio Sunrise has officially announced the plans for a live-action film adaptation of its Cowboy Bebop science-fiction anime franchise. The American film studio Twentieth Century Fox, the production company 3 Arts Entertainment, and Sunrise itself are collaborating on the project. Keanu Reeves (The Matrix, A Scanner Darkly, Johnny Mnemonic) is slated to star. Joshua Long is acting as a production supervisor, and Erwin Stoff, a film producer who worked closely with Reeves on The Matrix and A Scanner Darkly, is also attached. The associate producers are Sunrise President Kenji Uchida, the original Cowboy Bebop director Shinichiro Watanabe, and the original series script supervisor Keiko Nobumoto. The Sunrise studio itself and Masahiko Minami (former Sunrise producer and BONES studio co-founder) are both acting as production consultants.

Stoff first revealed the existence of the proposed project last July to the IFMagazine.com entertainment website after the parties "just signed it the other day." Reeves confirmed the plans and his intentions to play the lead role with MTV Movies Blog last month. He also indicated that the preliminary story outline partly draws inspiration from the "Red Eye" storyline from the first episode of the animated series. Reeves and Watanabe had previously worked together on the "Kid's Story" segment of The Animatrix animated video anthology.

Watanabe's original Cowboy Bebop series follows the motley crew of the spaceship Bebop as it travels throughout the solar system in search of the next job. The anime distributor Bandai Entertainment and Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block released the 1998 television series in the United States, and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment released the subsequent 2001 animated movie. The anime was also adapted into two separate manga series, and Tokyopop released both manga series in North America.


Keanu as Spike....well, if Watanabe is on this, then I guess they could get it right....

Mappy, I think you can say what should be said better than I can say it. So please say it because I have no idea how to say it.

Three words:

Oh.
God.
No.

(Unless they cast Michael Clarke Duncan as Jet. Then it shall be AWESOME )

Mappy wrote:
>> Keanu as Spike....well, if Watanabe is on this, then I guess they could get it right....

Three words:

Oh.
God.
No.

(Unless they cast Michael Clarke Duncan as Jet. Then it shall be AWESOME )

Nope, no matter how many good actors they throw at the movie, scheiße main actor in a movie is still scheiße movie. Matrix, Speed and Earth stood still anyone?

Yes, but we can have the satisfaction of knowing that, eventually, SPIKE DIES.

What if they screw that up?

Atory wrote:What if they screw that up?

O_o.... That is a scary thought.

Also Ed, who would be cast as Ed? Ed alone will either save or ruin this movie. Well her and Ein anywhoo.

They can stuff that up too. Knowing America, they could put the Olsen twins or Hannah Montana in it. And that would be the mock dirge right there.

And all the Firefly masturbators will still call it a ripoff. As they do, now, whenever they see the anime and fail to notice its production date (being some years before Firefly's) at the end of the opening credits, clear as day. But if there is anything I've learnt over the years on the internets, it's that there are no bounds to willing stupidity.

Everyday life gives me countless examples, let alone the Internet.

Last Exile wrote:They can stuff that up too. Knowing America, they could put the Olsen twins or Hannah Montana in it. And that would be the mock dirge right there.

Whilst Miley Cyrus might be an obvious choice to play Ein, I don't think she could quite capture the nuances of his character.

Oh well, hopefully they'll do better than that live action DBZ movie. I'm not even a fan of DBZ anymore but when I saw the trailer for it I almost got a heart attack V_V

khajiit wrote:Whilst Miley Cyrus might be an obvious choice to play Ein, I don't think she could quite capture the nuances of his character.

I think she'd have a problem right from the start.... Though some would probably describe her as a bit of a dog on many fronts.

What really worries me is who on earth they'd pick to play Faye Valentine! Honestly...is there actually anyone in Hopllywood that would actually look good in Faye's yellow PVC outfit? Not to mention replicate Faye's personality, physique and the like?

Last Exile wrote:What really worries me is who on earth they'd pick to play Faye Valentine! Honestly...is there actually anyone in Hopllywood that would actually look good in Faye's yellow PVC outfit? Not to mention replicate Faye's personality, physique and the like?

I don't think it'd be too hard to find an actress to play Faye and it would probably be easier and more comfortable to make the outfit out of another material.

If it isn't PVC, it isn't Faye.

Last Exile wrote:If it isn't PVC, it isn't Faye.

Can you provide us with a source stating that the outfit is made of PVC?

Google searching seems to suggest vinyl for flexibility and PVC (polyvinyl chloride) coating for its sheen, as vinyl alone has little lustre yet Faye's outfit has a lot.

I'm sure plenty could 'try' to fit in it. Whether they actually 'look good' in it is a completely different kettle of fish and something that is very hard to pull off, according to cosplayers/bloggers comments.