The live-action train keeps on rolling! Here's the next victim, the anime series
Cowboy Bebop is going to be getting a live-action adaptation pretty soon.
Early pre-production of this live-action cowboy bebop series has just been
confirmed. Yeah so they're finally doing it. They've been trying to make so many
anime into live-action. It was only a matter of time until they got to this
one and it looks like they keep on going after the classics. Cowboy Bebop came out
in 1998, It's been almost 20 years since then. So what do we know about this
Cowboy Bebop TV series? And that is one key thing, this is going to be a TV
series unlike something like ghost in the shell that was a live action movie.
No information yet about who is actually going to be directing this. We do know
who's writing this. It's going to be Chris Yost. Do far this guy have two
notable movies on his resume, two big Marvel movies in fact. He wrote Thor the
dark World and even the sequel Thor Ragnarok. That right there is pretty
scary. One of those movies was honestly pretty bad. It's one of the Marvel movies
I never re-watch and then we have this mystery second one Thor 3. Let's be
honest, those trailers look freaking awesome but it's not that hard to make a
movie look good by a trailer. Whether that movie is good or been
that's still unknown. If you look further into this guy's resume he has done a ton
of Marvel stuff mostly animated TV shows. We do have to give him some credit
though, Chris is the one that ended up creating the character of x-23 or at
least a version you saw of her in the recent Logan, so at least that's a good
sign. So right now you might be thinking to yourself is it even a good idea to
make a live-action Cowboy Bebop? The interesting part about that is that a
live-action project has been in the works since 2009. Previously 20th Century
Fox, 3 Art entertainment and sunrise announced plans to co-produce a
live-action version of the anime back in 2009. At this point it was slated to be a
live-action movie so think Ghost in the Shell. Keanu Reeves was even cast to be
in it. You could go ahead and take a wild guess of which role he was gonna get! Fast
forward a few years, the project seemed dead in other words the project was in
pre-production limbo. Now we're here in 2017 which by the way
there is no release date for it. Perhaps it'll come out next year.
Thankfully there is some hope for this, Sunrise is still co-producing the
live-action TV series. Sunrise being the studio that animated the original series,
although for this project Sunrise is only going to be the executive producer.
Still no word on who's going to be directing, which that should be a key
thing. So let me know down below, what do you think about this live-action Cowboy
Bebop project? Should it even be getting a live-action version of it? I personally
do have some hope for this. If they announced that it was going to be a
movie I'd be completely against it but honestly if they actually want to get a
chance of getting a live action version of anime right it shouldn't be a movie.
It needs to be a TV series. A whole concept like Cowboy Bebop could be
something like Firefly, which I heard the original anime might have even
inspired Firefly. Anyway right now there's still so many unknown things: the
release date, the director, we don't know any of the cast but there is also one
major thing, what is the budget going to be like for this show? Cowboy Bebop
takes place in freaking space. If they actually want to do any space flights
that could get really expensive. On the other hand they could have cut that down
and just have a lot of this take place down on Planets which will kind of suck.
Another thing too, would they even be using the original soundtrack? I kind of
doubt it and for a lot of people that's going to be a deal-breaker.
Alright so comment down below, is this Cowboy Bebop project a good idea? Is
there anything that they could do to actually make this a success? Personally
I'm still open-minded about there being some live-action anime especially if
it's a TV series. I know a lot of people have a nostalgia for Cowboy Bebop but
this was one of the series that I got into very late and since it's been
almost 20 years since anime ended I would be pretty interested in seeing
what they do with this TV series. If you enjoyed this video definitely give it a
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