See You, Space Cowboy - COWBOY BEBOP in Animation and Live Action

Maybe they decided that since the track record for anime to live action adaptations is like 80 to 1 against, this doesn't need to be made

And Netflix's last one, the Death Note adaptation, might honestly be the worst one I've seen

Filming is happening in NZ; they and other productions there got the government go-ahead.

Okay, this is good news.

Yoko Kanno, the composer behind the iconic soundtrack of the original COWBOY BEBOP anime will be creating the soundtrack for the new Live Action Series. Also confirmed...Cowboy Bebop is coming this Fall. #GeekedWeek pic.twitter.com/6lHZQcoFR6

— Netflix Geeked (@NetflixGeeked) June 8, 2021

yes!
i think TANK! might be one of my 100 favorite songs

We got photos.

https://gizmodo.com/netflixs-cowboy-bebop-is-here-and-ready-to-jam-1847530526

dang, Cho looks perfect.

And we got trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq2N-9EmedA

i am in favor of candy-colored, batshit fansevice for this series

lol, mostly this is a me and ned thing i think

We'll see who yet joins us!

i will of course watch this even tho i do not need it

A good approach. (Started a rewatch of the original last night. Amazing still.)

Oh I'll definitely watch but my hopes are soooo low for this. Reasons being 1) Netflix 2) can't help but pale in comparison to one of the best anime ever

Same feeling here. I'll give it a shot, of course

It'll auto-advance to the top of my watching queue and we'll see what happens.

i remember the anime being stylish but empty. not that i finished it.

I think maybe you should have finished it

at least you admit your sin, abanana

enough style can be its own substance

^ That's how I'd break it down to an extent

I have a long-standing crush on John Cho, and also loved the anime, so I am very interested how they combine these two things I love.

3-2-1, let's jam.

This looks v silly and I'm here for it

recreating scenes shot by shot just makes it look like an expensive fan cosplay video

I mean, yes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JDWm1f6-M0

lmao, ok, that was rad

GREEN BIRD
and that's how you fanservice
Jet's voice is dead on to the english dub btw

And we have full trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6SSISUJR2k

Aw yeah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZINRNNNRNVE

Lots of complaining online but I rather liked the first episode. Slower pace but it all works and the music is unsurprisingly on point.

Haven't watched yet but seen several reddit posts that look suspiciously like astroturfing

first ep was fine but my feeling is if i was gonna watch this or rewatch the anime, why not do the latter?

clips of this I've seen are cringeworthy

not watching this but the whole thing just looks like a goofy community theatre sendup of the source material shot like a film school sendup of the source material

the whole thing looks weirdly clean. even if it wasn't based on a very dusty/grainy looking show it would still look too bright and HD. makes it look corny.

it's fun, mostly carried by the charisma of the principal three actors. gets too grimdark at the end, I guess that's the times. and the character who turns up in the last fives minutes is fuckin' abysmal.

Annnnd that’s it

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/cowboy-bebop-canceled-netflix-1235060256/

I've never seen Cowboy Bebop, the cartoon or this show, but I don't quite understand what's up with networks green-lighting notoriously fraught or difficult projects based on reputable source material (this, Y: The Last Man), allowing them to be fucked up despite such solid source material as guidance, and then cancelling with extreme prejudice. Like, a live-action adaptation of a cult anime classic is such a seemingly bad idea on its face, so ... why bother?

i presume whichever exec was the shepherd on these projects saw their star dim and didn't have the juice to push them forward to a second year

Repeating myself from FB:

It's notable that the 'lost session' teaser absolutely nailed it in terms of tone, editing, etc, quick, witty, goofy and serious at the same time -- if they had carried this through the rest of the series then things would be better (not perfect -- my biggest story complaints were Jet's new rather clunky backstory and turning the whole Vicious/Julia thing into an unneeded running B plot instead of it just surfacing via a couple of episodes in the original, though I did like the standalone flashback episode well enough). Also, nothing against Alex Hassell per se but besides the unnecessarily convoluted Vicious backstory this time out, he just doesn't LOOK like Vicious, who is supposed to be absolutely beautifully evil. Hassell's got too rough a face for the character.

Still, can't argue that Yoko Kanno's music was always on point -- though to turn it around, I honestly think that they got in their heads that 'bebop' was meant to represent the entire sound/aesthetic of the whole series rather than it being a signifier -- the fact that they felt compelled to create this whole jazz club element as a key part of the series was pretty unnecessary!

guess my levels of expectation are lower than most as i really enjoyed this.
loved the whole steampunk vibe of it.
thought the whole world building/cgi thing looked great.
yeah, it got grimdark (great phrase !) in last episodes, but that was inevitable.
think it had a lot more legs to it for a second season.
feels weird how quickly netflix have pulled the plug on it.

note : had no idea re the anime source, so have no idea who turns up in the last scene.