The film received generally positive reviews from mainstream and anime critics and was nominated for the Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Animated Film.Ĭowboy Bebop: The Movie is set on Mars in 2071, 49 years after Earth was mostly abandoned after a catastrophe. It went on to gross over $3 million worldwide, and when released on DVD, it ranked high on Japanese and US charts. Cowboy Bebop: The Movie was released to theaters in Japan on September 1, 2001, and in the United States on August 11, 2002.
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The film was produced by studios Sunrise, which had previously developed the original series Bones, a later studio founded by former Sunrise staff and Bandai Visual. The Arabic atmosphere was also used in Kanno's music. Arabic thematic elements were incorporated to contrast against the series, which entailed Watanabe traveling to Morocco for research. Increased budget and production facilities enabled the use of filming styles associated with live action films and a higher animation quality than the series. So as not to alienate fans of the series, a large amount of aesthetic material was incorporated, while also adjusting it to make it accessible to newcomers. The film was conceived by Watanabe as an extension of his work on the television series, which he treated as a series of miniature films. The bounty hunter crew of the spaceship Bebop work to find the terrorist and discover the pathogen's source before the attack can take place. The plot centers on a mysterious terrorist planning to destroy the human population on Mars using an unknown pathogen. Both the original Japanese and English voice cast also reprised their roles.Ĭowboy Bebop: The Movie is set between episodes 22 and 23 of the original series. Multiple staff from the original series worked on the film, including director Shinichirō Watanabe writer Keiko Nobumoto character designer/animation director Toshihiro Kawamoto and composer Yoko Kanno. Cowboy Bebop: Heaven's Door), is a 2001 Japanese animated science fiction film based on the 1998 anime series Cowboy Bebop created by Hajime Yatate. June 6th, 2017 new information appeared online that a live-action movie is in progress.Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, known in Japan as Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door ( Japanese: カウボーイビバップ 天国の扉, Hepburn: Kaubōi Bibappu: Tengoku no Tobira, lit. On May 31, 2013, Watanabe stated that the film is currently "underway" but the "details are a secret." On OctoReeves stated "Cowboy Bebop does not look like it is going to happen with me in it " in a reddit IAmA. The submitted script was sent back for rewrite to reduce the cost and little has been heard about it since an interview with producer Joshua Long on Octothe project currently languishes in development hell. At the time it was slated to release in 2011, but problems with the budget delayed its production. This was lauded by various sources as a promising move for the potential quality of the film. The site also confirmed Kenji Uchida, Shinichiro Watanabe, and series writer Keiko Nobumoto as associate producers, series producer Masahiko Minami as a production consultant, and Peter Craig as screenwriter. Variety confirmed on January 15, 2009, that production company Sunrise would be "closely involved with the development of the English language project". Keanu Reeves was to play the role of Spike Spiegel. Producer Erwin Stoff said that the film's development was in the early stages, and that they had "just signed it". On July 22, 2008, If published an article on its website regarding a rumor of a live-action Cowboy Bebop movie in development by 20th Century Fox.
The Cowboy Bebop: Live Action Film (name TBD) is a possible upcoming live action film featuring the crew of the Bebop. For information on the 2001 animated film, see: Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door.
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