Queasy
Moderator<br>Console Gaming
Well, Akira is being developed into a live-action film. Along with Robotech, Voltron, and other anime stalwarts.
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Keanu Reeves currently working on a Cowboy Bebop movie
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Well, Akira is being developed into a live-action film. Along with Robotech, Voltron, and other anime stalwarts.
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No I'm not. I didn't even mention acting. All I said is I can't watch anime, but if the story in the original was good, then maybe the live-action version will be watchable.
KT
darkxshade
Lifer
Well he certainly looks the part so as long as he doesn't open his mouth, the movie might work out. 🙂
Oceandevi
Diamond Member
Spike seemed 7 feet tall and lean, keanu is not ninja enough to play him. And Spike was laid back and suave and cool, sarcastic ...... keanu is drab and boring and half robot...
this series would not translate well. the action scenes are going to be impossible to recreate IRL.
this series would not translate well. the action scenes are going to be impossible to recreate IRL.
oiprocs
Diamond Member
At least you provided a link with a horrible title as well as content to make searching difficult. In the end, I don't think it counts as the mention of cowboy bebop is in a post mentioning it with no link.
As for Faye Valentine playing Faye Valentine, I know I've watched enough of her work that she cannot pull off playing the character in a cowboy bebop movie. 😛
EDIT: I'm thinking of certain scenes that I don't think Keanu can pull off, but they can always hire some asian martial arts guy that looks kinda like Keanu and just have hair in his face all the time while he is fighting. i.e. Any episode he pulls off fancy dancy fighting moves.
Saga
Banned
Out of curiosity, why have you convinced yourself you can't watch anime? Typically people who say that have some elitism complex and a phobia that watching a cartoon is degrading. That usually lasts until they realize that anime is NOTHING like American Cartoons. Anyone who I've ever met and introduced to mature anime has become a fan. Cowboy Bebop falls in this category, though on the low end of the spectrum - I consider very few anime that Cartoon Network picked up to be good anime. Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo are probably the only exceptions to the garbage Cartoon Network shows.
Not that I'm accusing you of being elitist or anything; if anything you've shown to be otherwise, so it leaves me genuinely surprised to see you say this.
I can't imagine a universe in which this turns out well.
The series doesn't really follow a plot in the same way that long story arc anime's usually do. There are a few main story line elements here and there, and a last episode where **spoiler** SPIKE DIES! **/spoiler** but the stuff in between isn't really linear in any sort of way. I hope they take advantage of this and just create a story that would fit somewhere in the middle, after all the characters are introduced, and doesn't in any way attempt to recreate anything done in the anime. That's the way the animated movie worked and it was great.
that said, I still can't imagine this turning out well 🙁 Is keanu going to use the same weak-ass moves he learned doing the matrix? His kung-fu is too weak to play spike 🙁
The series doesn't really follow a plot in the same way that long story arc anime's usually do. There are a few main story line elements here and there, and a last episode where **spoiler** SPIKE DIES! **/spoiler** but the stuff in between isn't really linear in any sort of way. I hope they take advantage of this and just create a story that would fit somewhere in the middle, after all the characters are introduced, and doesn't in any way attempt to recreate anything done in the anime. That's the way the animated movie worked and it was great.
that said, I still can't imagine this turning out well 🙁 Is keanu going to use the same weak-ass moves he learned doing the matrix? His kung-fu is too weak to play spike 🙁
I tried watching Ghost in the Shell a couple of weeks back and I got through, maybe 45 minutes before I turned it off. I liked Akira when I was young and I enjoyed a couple of Mayazaki films, but I think that may be the extent of what i can handle.
I had a whole thread on anime recommendations a little while back and people were very helpful, but I just don't think I can sit and watch a bunch of it.
KT
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