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In a partially unexpected announcement, FOX has picked up the rights to make a live-action Cowboy Bebop film. From TFA:

Erwin Stoff (Producer): “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…”

That has at least eased my trepidation that the Anime-to-live-action translation will end up decidedly less than savory (read: Dragonball). I personally couldn’t be more intrigued by the concept of a live action Bebop movie. It’s something that my friends and I have talked about for years. Who would make it, direct it, star in it, do the effects and so on. It would appear that some of our predictions are coming true. With FOX being the studio, it would be ideal for LucasFilm to head up the effects. No one has been named yet for the director role or any of the starring roles.

This will be one to follow.

Later,
Dave

4 Comments »

1. God help us all…

   Seriously; do not want. Leave anime where it belongs.

   Comment by famicommander — October 19, 2008 @ 5:35 pm

2. This is going to stink bad.

   Comment by LoOpY — October 19, 2008 @ 6:21 pm

3. Sweet, thats going to suck.

   Comment by DeadlyPixels — October 19, 2008 @ 6:46 pm

4. Well, I’ll reserve judgement until I hear who the director is. Shinichiro Watanabe may produce it with Michael Bay directing. Who knows? It might turn out nicely.

   Comment by Jason.R — October 19, 2008 @ 8:08 pm

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