This looks perfect.
News Live-Action ‘Cowboy Bebop’ tv series in the works
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Yes! This looks - and sounds - great.
OK, that trailer is a way better presentation then the last one. That said . . . I don't know why exactly but it's still just not doing it for me. In theory they're hitting most of the right notes, but there's something about it that to me just feels stilted, almost stiff. Like they're trying to go for a hyper-stylised Edgar Wright type of thing (which is clearly the right way to go), but the elements just aren't meshing smoothly.
Who knows, maybe it's fine and I'm just bitter about the lack of Ed?
Who knows, maybe it's fine and I'm just bitter about the lack of Ed?
Ok, so I'm rewatching the anime since Netflix added it in preparation for this.
And every time I watch this show (which is excellent), I have the same question. The Bebop uses a centrifuge drum to simulate gravity while flying in space. You can see one section of the outside of the ship rotating, and several times during the course of the series we visit the collar hallway where the drum meets the static portion of the ship and see the characters move through it or walk along it.
But it's also designed to land on planetary bodies. I mean, it's half fishing trawler, for heaven's sake. And we see it land more than once. But, how the heck do the rooms in the drum handle planetary gravity? During rotation, "down" would always be out towards the skin of the ship. So when you hit planar gravity half the rooms should be wildly skewed or outright upside down. Do the rooms pivot independently to account for the new "down?" How do they handle the transition? I have questions.
And every time I watch this show (which is excellent), I have the same question. The Bebop uses a centrifuge drum to simulate gravity while flying in space. You can see one section of the outside of the ship rotating, and several times during the course of the series we visit the collar hallway where the drum meets the static portion of the ship and see the characters move through it or walk along it.
But it's also designed to land on planetary bodies. I mean, it's half fishing trawler, for heaven's sake. And we see it land more than once. But, how the heck do the rooms in the drum handle planetary gravity? During rotation, "down" would always be out towards the skin of the ship. So when you hit planar gravity half the rooms should be wildly skewed or outright upside down. Do the rooms pivot independently to account for the new "down?" How do they handle the transition? I have questions.
Just for fun here’s the trailer dubbed in Japanese.
EDIT: Some of the translated comments seem to suggest this may be the same voice actors from the anime which would be interesting. Maybe I need to check out those subtitled anime as I was saying.
EDIT2: https://collider.com/cowboy-bebop-anime-cast-dubbing-live-action-series-netflix/
EDIT: Some of the translated comments seem to suggest this may be the same voice actors from the anime which would be interesting. Maybe I need to check out those subtitled anime as I was saying.
EDIT2: https://collider.com/cowboy-bebop-anime-cast-dubbing-live-action-series-netflix/
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Cowboy from being bounty hunters and outlaws and so on Bebop for jazz which gives you the “noir” I suppose. I don’t know if that’s the actual reason for the name but close enough. It has some martial arts, some comedy, some outlandish. Worth a spin I’d say. The anime is on Netflix, give it a spin.
I agree but I doubt the actor who could portray Spike in a way that would satisfy everyone's expectations exists.
Ed doesn't appear until a fair way into the anime, of course. She's definitely in this adaptation - I think I spotted a picture of her in one of the publicity stills - not sure though.OK, that trailer is a way better presentation then the last one. That said . . . I don't know why exactly but it's still just not doing it for me. In theory they're hitting most of the right notes, but there's something about it that to me just feels stilted, almost stiff. Like they're trying to go for a hyper-stylised Edgar Wright type of thing (which is clearly the right way to go), but the elements just aren't meshing smoothly.
Who knows, maybe it's fine and I'm just bitter about the lack of Ed?
Holy crap, that's awesome! I'm gonna watch both versions.
Has there ever been a case like this before where a voice actor dubbed it's live action counterpart in a series or movie?
There's also the acceleration vector under thrust to take into consideration. Designing the plumbing for the ship's head must have been ingenious.
I was bobbing my head to the title intro music they used in the trailer - good they kept that from the anime 
Very good trailer and i am now officially looking forward to November 19th. It'll be a pretty busy fall/winter this year ( Bebop and Wheel of Time starting at the same time, Witcher Season 2 in December + all the other shows i'm watching at the moment).
And i have rewatched the Bebop Finale and the song Blue by legendary Yoko Kanno so many times recently in anticipation of the Netflix show, i so hope they keep this for the live action finale too and i am sure i'll be equally heart broken when it happens.
Very good trailer and i am now officially looking forward to November 19th. It'll be a pretty busy fall/winter this year ( Bebop and Wheel of Time starting at the same time, Witcher Season 2 in December + all the other shows i'm watching at the moment).
And i have rewatched the Bebop Finale and the song Blue by legendary Yoko Kanno so many times recently in anticipation of the Netflix show, i so hope they keep this for the live action finale too and i am sure i'll be equally heart broken when it happens.
Spike Spiegel is more a poacher turned gamekeeper as the trailer implies.
Oh, I'll have to add it to my queue.
Yeah. For me as a hard-SF guy, CB's treatment of shipboard gravity is infuriatingly inconsistent and illogical. I can live with such things in live action, but it's frustrating to see animated shows failing to take advantage of the potential of the medium to get low and microgravity correct.
It's both.
I've heard that is the case, yes. It's pretty standard for the original cast to do the dubbing when a Western adaptation of a Japanese series is dubbed into Japanese (e.g. with Power Rangers).
I definitely recommend this. I still feel the dub voices other than Ed were miscast, not suiting the characters as well as the original voices.
Veteran something, but not a bounty hunter.
He's a retired assassin seeking redemption.
I just rewatched the first episode of the anime, and there's a blatant example of inconsistent treatment of gravity in the closing scene. Spike and Jet are standing and walking normally in a room in a non-rotating part of the ship (Spike is even working out), then Jet tosses Spike a cigarette that travels straight as if in free fall, then Spike puffs it and the smoke rises, something it would only do if there's gravity to drive thermal convection.
By the way, is it defaulting to Japanese with subtitles for everyone, or does Netflix just remember my anime preferences?
