Writer Peter Craig, who has been chosen to write the "Cowboy Bebop" movie starring Keanu Reeves, says that it will be true to the anime. I don't know about you, but it's very hard to interpret anime into a real-action movie, especially in Hollywood. Another thing that has me skeptical is that Craig is not even an anime fan or ever written Sci-Fi.
"Even though I'd never written Sci-Fi, Emma Watts and Erwin Stoff really believed that I might relate well to Spike, Faye, and Jet -- as well as many of the minor characters from the episodes. When I heard I might have a chance for the job, I was thrilled. Fox sent me every episode of "Cowboy Bebop," including a few that had never aired in the U.S. I think I watched all of them consecutively one night until the sun came up - and by the end, I was obsessed with the show. I loved how it mixed genres, how it blended noir, Jazz, Yakuza movies, Westerns, and so much else into a vision of the future that worked. And so I entered that process of going after the job, giving my "take" on the movie, competing with other writers. Ultimately, I got the job because Erwin Stoff and Emma Watts had liked my work in the past -- and they saw that I was passionate about it."
Let's hope that they prove me wrong.
To read the interview with AnimeVice, click here: http://www.animevice.com/news/writer-peter-craig-speaks-on-cowboy-bebop-flick/1552/?page=2&sort=first
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I don't know which came first, the Death Note cartoon or live-action, but the live action movies were good until that last one(so brutal I didn't want to review it). I tried watching Cowboy Bebop when it was on TV all the time but it never hooked me. Maybe this version will win me over.
ReplyDeleteThe second Death Note was so so. The first one WAS good. I've been reading reviews of the new Blood movie and it seems like it pretty much sucks.
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