Live Action Cowboy Bebop Movie

Good news for fans of the anime Cowboy Bebop! A live action film is currently in the works for Fox Pictures by Erwin Stoff, producer extraordinaire.

"I'm really excited to be working on it, and it's in the really early stages. We just signed it the other day," Stoff said in an interview.

"I have such an enormous admiration for its creators, that our first and foremost concern is going to be a real degree of faithfulness to the tone of the movie, to the mix of genres, and so on and so forth…When I met with them in Japan, one of the things I brought up was the experience we had on A Scanner Darkly, and how hard we worked to remain faithful to Philip K. Dick and that was our major concern here.

"I think [American audiences] haven't [gotten aboard] with the anime because it's had limited exposure…it's just been on Adult Swim, and so on. I think the ability to tell this larger frame - the ability to build a world that's iconically American in its Western nature - I don't think so at all."