I'm not scared, personally, unless they really mess up the actors and actresses they pick...but otherwise, this sounds awesome. Cowboy Bebop is such a well known and well liked anime, you can't go wrong with looking to it for live-action fun.
yes, yes you can. i will now enumerate the many ways hollywood has, or would like to have, messed with beloved franchises:
1) tim burton was asked to direct the last superman movie. he wanted to make superman's suit see-through, like you can see to his internal organs. oh yes, and lets not forget the suit-in-the-can idea!
2) 4 words: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. if you've read the graphic novels, you know what a travesty that was. need i say more?
3) thank the gods that neil gaiman has creative control over his IP of the endless. otherwise, we'd have had a film by now about the apocalyptic battle between the good king of dreams, sandman, v. his evil twin brother, morpheus, king of knightmares!
4) actually, anything that was adapted to film that was written by alan moore. poor mr. moore. (i actually liked V for Vendetta, but that was more because of the phenomonal acting performance by hugo weaving.)
5) the new wanted movie bore almost no resemblance to the graphic novel from which it was based. the GN was utterly amoral, depraved, and delightfully hedonistic. it was about a band of super-villains, who've changed the world and destroy (one way or another) all the super-heroes. the villains now have the run of the world, and they do exactly as they please: rape, murder, destroy, all with impunity. hollywood changed it to good guys doing the "greater good". bah. the GN was superior.
6) and, the last word will be had by the inimitable neil gaiman:
NG: Yes. It really is this thing of executives loving the smell of their own urine and urinating on things. And then more execs come in, and they urinate. And then the next round. By the end, they have this thing which just smells like pee, and nobody likes it.*
how can a bebop movie be good? it's got a sad ending! hollywood can't have sad endings! they also can't have amoral characters. everyone must be the good guy. what are they going to do with faye? they're going to have her played by some brainless, flavor-of-the-month, talentless bimbo. i can only hope that this ends up in production he11, like the sandman movies.
*http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1109313-1,00.html
