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Live Action Cowboy Bebop? Wellll....KEANU REEVES. FUCK.
Local H Jay
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So, I missed this by a mile but a friend shot me this link the other day. Now, I think a live action Bebop could work. But it'd be a miracle if it were faithful to the animation. But now, Keanu has been tied to it (thankfully only a rumor so far, but just the idea is terrifying).
Not to knock Keanu, but this isn't his kind of movie. The part calls for someone with a better sense of humor, and something like the ability to display emotion other than beffudlement or amazement. The actor's gotta have range.
Pushing aside other issues (like the rumored 'Neo-Manhattan' setting), Spike should be done justice the most, as he is pretty much the central character. My perfect casting is this fella:
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, for his similar role in Brick. Despite being young, he is the best choice for the role, hands down.
Other things needed for the movie to not suck:
The original soundtrack. Or updated, but still the same songs please.
Don't get too bogged down into what happened to earth. Focus on the characters.
I'd say take 2-3 episodes and put them together, or take the plot of the movie, Knockin' on Heaven's Door.
Thoughts? Is it a train wreck or a godsend?
So, I missed this by a mile but a friend shot me this link the other day. Now, I think a live action Bebop could work. But it'd be a miracle if it were faithful to the animation. But now, Keanu has been tied to it (thankfully only a rumor so far, but just the idea is terrifying).
Not to knock Keanu, but this isn't his kind of movie. The part calls for someone with a better sense of humor, and something like the ability to display emotion other than beffudlement or amazement. The actor's gotta have range.
Pushing aside other issues (like the rumored 'Neo-Manhattan' setting), Spike should be done justice the most, as he is pretty much the central character. My perfect casting is this fella:
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, for his similar role in Brick. Despite being young, he is the best choice for the role, hands down.
Other things needed for the movie to not suck:
The original soundtrack. Or updated, but still the same songs please.
Don't get too bogged down into what happened to earth. Focus on the characters.
I'd say take 2-3 episodes and put them together, or take the plot of the movie, Knockin' on Heaven's Door.
Thoughts? Is it a train wreck or a godsend?
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No.
NO!
Aughh! This can only end badly
Like the Speed Racer movie and soon the Dragonball Z movie, just because you can do something in live action doesn't mean you should. Unless you plan on doing it LotR style, it's best to just leave it alone.
I didn't actually see it. I meant more in the sense that it costs some ungodly amount of money to make, but hasn't made back its production costs yet.
Speed Racer was fucking awesome. It was like 2 hours of awesome cars, pretty tracks, and wonderful art design. If you didn't go in expecting story and dialogue you had a blast.
hell, Cowboy Bebop already exists. no need to remake it.
Can't see it happening.
Gordon-Levitt would be horrible. Part of the fun of Bebop was the action, and I couldn't see him doing that at all.
Jett Blacks a bit harder to cast, I'd say Tiny Lister.
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I'm only familiar with Bebop from anime conventions.
He can do comedy, he can do angry. He'll just have to combine them both. Then again I don't have the nerd rage against reeves like most do. I mean look at Speed that was kind of a playful, but serious guy.
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Ha.
:^:
Wait, how has it been more than once?
See: OP.
God dammit I'm making a Keanu Reeves joke here.
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Damn you, anyway:
Definitely the issue's the music, for me.
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The film Matrix, or the musical Matrix?
The musical, all those dance numbers were terrible and the tap portions were embarrasing.
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The fact that it's even possible to ask this question makes me wonder at the nature of reality.
Back on topic, I'll wait to abandon all hope until we hear who's cast as Jet or Ed.
I could actually live with Stephen Dorf and Clancy Brown. Not so much Cameron Diaz.
EDIT: And fuck John Woo.
Eds a bad character for an introduction, worked on the show, wouldn't work for the movie. Also poor ein wouldn't end up being a corgi so I know that he'd get fucked up as well better left out of the movie (they'd probably make him a doberman or german sheppard and he'd have the ability to talk). Faye could work if they didn't go with Angelina Jolie, but they will so she should be left off too.
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You wash your mouth out with SOAP.
And seriously? Keanu's not a bad choice. Shit, I even didn't mind him in Constantine.
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Having never read a single issue, I thought it was pretty decent. It had Peter Stormaire as the devil, which is totally rad.
But I still don't think that Keanu Reeves is a worthwhile match for Spike. Spike's stoicism is of a subtly different style from that which Reeves has exhibited in pretty much all his movies since Bill and Ted, and I really have my doubts that he would be able to hit it properly.
Because it was an absolute raping of the franchise for no good reason. They could have just called it fucking Keanu Reeves: Deamon hunter and saved some cash.
Hellblazer is about a sarcastic punk English guy who's more con-artist/criminal/detective than mage, who gets the absolute shit kicked out of him a lot and tends to get dragging into matters instead of seeking out evil to thwart. There's nothing catholic about the series, Constantine doesn't give a shit about heaven and he certainly isn't looking to act as their hitman. The whole thing about angel/deamon half breeds never shows up in the series either.
Basically all the Constantine movie did was tie up the franchise and stop anybody from making an actual Hellblazer movie.
Also i'm getting in early with the cynicism and betting that Cowboy Bebop turns out mediocre at best and i'm going to have to spend a lot of time justifying the original series to my friends as a result of this movie.
So I guess that's a pretty big deal too.
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