Cowboy Bebop Live Action

It seems Fox has agreed to make a Cowboy Bebop live action movie.  It was just decided recently.  Here is the article from ANN.

The IFMagazine.com entertainment website reports that film producer Erwin Stoff (The Matrix, A Scanner Darkly) is developing a live-action adaptation of Sunrise’s Cowboy Bebop multi-genre action anime series for Fox. Stoff told the website that the project is “in the really early stages” since the parties “just signed it the other day.” Shinichiro Watanabe’s original anime follows the motley crew of the spaceship Bebop as it travels throughout the solar system in search of the next job. Stoff promised “a real degree of faithfulness,” and added, “When I met with them in Japan, one of the first things that I brought up was the experience that we had on A Scanner Darkly, and how hard we worked to remain faithful to Philip K. Dick, and that was our big concern here.”

The anime distributor Bandai Entertainment and Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim programming block released the original 1998 television series in the United States, and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment released the subsequent 2001 animated movie. The anime was also adapted into two separate manga series, and Tokyopop released both manga series in North America. A Bandai Entertainment representative was unable to publicly comment on this report.

Thank you to Meghan Grant and Starks for the news tips.

Though for fans of the series this may seem like good news, but with the Dragon Ball Z movie in the making can we really be sure?  The DBZ live action has already been predicted as a bust by most of the fans.  Many agree the cast of characters is messed up and there is no way to bring something like Dragon Ball Z to life in the real world.

Thinking it over though Cowboy Bebop could be pulled off.  You can almost picture how it would look.  Anyways, what do you all think of this idea?  Do you think it will be another bust as DBZ is predicted to be?