Cowboy Bebop Thread - Live-Action Adaptation in the Works (it's gonna be shit)

[Flexo]

If the original show maker was involved? Maybe.

No joke - if any anime series could be fairly adapted to live action Cowboy Beebop is one of the top possibilities. The entire show had only 3 episodes with "plot" otherwise it was like star trek - just another adventure this week. Heck, the ORIGINAL Beebop movie proves this by just being a longer episode (and giving us a girl hotter than Faye).

So if you set it up? Sure you could do a live movie. Make it "just another day in the life" type of extended episode and it could work. If you REALLY wanted to pander to the fans, you'd animate an opening and closing to the movie to explain that the "live action" segments were just the cast all tripping on mushrooms. (which they've done)

TL;DR - someone with the talent, skill, and artistic integrity could absolutely make a Beebop movie that would be a welcome addition to the canon.

Too bad there's nobody like that in Hollywood.

 

[ResurrectedFerret]

If you REALLY wanted to pander to the fans, you'd animate an opening and closing to the movie to explain that the "live action" segments were just the cast all tripping on mushrooms

Thats fucking retarded.

 

[Flexo]

Thats fucking retarded.

We are talking about a show that once did an Alien parody episode caused by food left too long in the fridge.

Beebop has a fine tradition of taking the retarded and making it awesome.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Thats fucking retarded.

That's not what I said.
What the fuck were you quoting?

 

[ResurrectedFerret]

That's not what I said.
What the fuck were you quoting?

Bruh moment

 

[Uranus Pink]

No article here, but I just came across this in my browsing, and holy shit this is going to be another Avatar The Last Airbender level of bad isn't it?

You being very optimistic it would only be as bad as LA AtLA. Unfortunately it can get so much worse than that.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

I did say in the Unpopular Anime thread that SJWs would fuck it up due to sheer incompetence. Ironic, I guess, as I also said that Cowboy Bebop would actually work if it leaned into its Blaxploitation inspiration. Remember Coffee? Except SJWs don't get the ostentatious flair of Blaxploitation either, so it'll probably look like some bland, desaturated Netflix movie.

 

[Trombonista]

If the original show maker was involved? Maybe.

No joke - if any anime series could be fairly adapted to live action Cowboy Beebop is one of the top possibilities. The entire show had only 3 episodes with "plot" otherwise it was like star trek - just another adventure this week. Heck, the ORIGINAL Beebop movie proves this by just being a longer episode (and giving us a girl hotter than Faye).

So if you set it up? Sure you could do a live movie. Make it "just another day in the life" type of extended episode and it could work. If you REALLY wanted to pander to the fans, you'd animate an opening and closing to the movie to explain that the "live action" segments were just the cast all tripping on mushrooms. (which they've done)

TL;DR - someone with the talent, skill, and artistic integrity could absolutely make a Beebop movie that would be a welcome addition to the canon.

Too bad there's nobody like that in Hollywood.

The original director was not involved because he was working on Carole and Tuesday.

 

[XYZpdq]

So if you set it up? Sure you could do a live movie. Make it "just another day in the life" type of extended episode and it could work

iirc in its earliest development the Bebop live action project was exactly going to be "here's another Bebop story and this one happens to be done in live action"

 

[Kari Kamiya]

No article here, but I just came across this in my browsing, and holy shit this is going to be another Avatar The Last Airbender level of bad isn't it?
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No fucking way. This can't be for real.

 

[Pokemonquistador2]

Dear god, they look like they're cosplaying.

No they don't. Cosplayers would have better costumes.

 

[Miller]

TL;DR - someone with the talent, skill, and artistic integrity could absolutely make a Beebop movie that would be a welcome addition to the canon.

Too bad there's nobody like that in Hollywood.

Ronald D. Moore, Naren Shankar, etc.

 

[Flexo]

Ronald D. Moore, Naren Shankar, etc.

JMS too if we're being that autistic.

 

[Miller]

JMS too if we're being that autistic.

Even after Sense8?

 

[Flexo]

Even after Sense8?

One depressing thing I've learned is how little writers matter. (See latest star wars.)

Even Shakespeare himself is ultimately at the mercy of producers, directors, editors, and actors. There's more than a few sites chronicling films where a smart script was made dumb.

 

[cactus]

Why is Jet fat? He has to fight sometimes, so why is he fat? They can't even get Faye's clothes and hair right, that's how you know it's gonna be shit. Also that bitch is fat and Faye isn't.

Man Faye had a better costume.

 

[mandatorylurk]

This is the same production company that's also making a One Piece show for Netflix, so whatever vomit comes from this show, it will be 100 times worse for a dreadlock black Luffy and womxn Nami.

 

[XYZpdq]

Why is Jet fat? He has to fight sometimes, so why is he fat? They can't even get Faye's clothes and hair right, that's how you know it's gonna be shit. Also that bitch is fat and Faye isn't.

Man Faye had a better costume.

Yeah Jet was a big dude, not a shlumpy looking guy.
Like casting only heard "former cop" and never bothered to look at the show

 

[Dom Cruise]

No article here, but I just came across this in my browsing, and holy shit this is going to be another Avatar The Last Airbender level of bad isn't it?
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Man, I think it's time we blow this scene. Get everybody and the stuff together. Okay? three, two, one... let's jam.

 

[Secret Asshole]

This gets posted every time live-action Bebop comes out, but it's for a good reason.
Tfw The Amazing World of Gumball respects Cowboy Bebop more than you

I mean...there's also Archer: