Live Action Anime

Credit goes to the UK’s NEO magazine for this bit of news. Word has it that Masahiro Minami, producer on Studio BONES’ chambara epic Sword of the Stranger, and alumnus of Sunrise Studio, will be serving as a “creative manager” in the upcoming 20th Century Fox adaptation of Cowboy Bebop.
Minami says, “In terms of my [...]

An executive producer for the upcoming live action Cowboy Bebop film, Joshua Long, announced his newly renamed company 1212 entertainment would be focusing on live action adaptations of manga, anime, and game titles from Japan, as well as French comics. He also said that his company would have “a lot to announce soon.”
He had announced [...]

I’m sure there are alot of fans waiting for more Cowboy Bebop news, so here it is.

 
After several weeks with no news on the upcoming live action adaptation of Shinichiro Watanabe’s Cowboy Bebop, Keanu Reeves shed some light on the film’s status in an interview with MTV’s Splash Page. Reeves states the movie is currently being re-written [...]

Thanks go to ANN for providing us with this update on 20th Century Fox’s live-action adaptation of Shinichiro Watanabe’s Cowboy Bebop. Website Anime Vice has, it seems, secured an interview with writer Peter Craig who has been allocated to the project.

Craig stems from a background as a novelist of crime fiction, and has been identified [...]

Kenji Uchida, the president of Sunrise animation studio, told attendees of Tokyo International Anime fair that Keanu Reeves had visited Japan twice to express his interest in adapting Cowboy Bebop into a live action film. Allegedly, it was largely thanks to Reeves’ enthusiasm that the deal went ahead at all.
Uchida further stated that the negotiations [...]

ANN reports Erwin Stoff, producer at 3 Arts Entertainment, as having said that the upcoming Cowboy Bebop movie will not be an origin story of its hero Spike Spiegel. “We start with Spike when he is in his present life already,” says he. The script, being written by Peter Craig, is yet to be completed; [...]

In an interview with MTV, Keanu Reeves showed his eagerness for his hopeful upcoming role as Spike Spiegel in the live action Cowboy Bebop movie.  He also reveals some details on the film.

“It’s got a Western quality, a Western film noir aspect to it,” Reeves said of why he’s such a big fan of Shinichiro [...]