Live-action Cowboy Bebop coming to Netflix

And live action adaptations of animation haven’t exactly been a huge money maker thus far. Even the financially successful ones aren’t particularly well regarded, and are often technically adaptations of books that were initially adapted as cartoons. I can’t imagine Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland is raking in dough this far after its release. Not even really sure how it got a sequel. And the GiJoe movies didn’t exactly reignite action figure sales.

That list is mostly comics, don’t know why they role them together. But the genuine adaptations of animation in there are mostly things that haven’t come out yet. Notable bombs, and regularly mocked flashes in the pan.

I don’t even know how you’d film that. It’d definitely be a live action Lion King situation “oh they remade it with less interesting but more expensive animation”.

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