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I think they said something about "expanding the canon" but the opening seems to strongly imply they're doing adaptations of at least a few episodes.
Regarding Mad his backstory is covered extensively in the actual episode so there's no need for any prequel.
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Bebop without Ed, Birds of Prey without Oracle, live-action adaptations are rough if you're a fan of computer-savvy carrot-tops XD
Take my dreams, childish and weak at the seams
Please don't analyze, please just be there for me
To be fair though, Ed doesn't really appear until around episode 9 in the anime and also is written out of the show before the two part finale. She also really only gets around 4 spotlight episodes-Jamming with Edward, Bohemian Rhapsody, Mushroom Samba and Hard Luck Woman (and the last one is kind of shared more with Faye).
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Ed is still an essential part of the crew once she joined. Her not being in is a mark against the show.
Ed was always one of my favorite parts of every episode she was in. She was just such a fun and marvelous goofy character.
Official teaser trailer, actually quite clever.
It's almost too clever for its own good, imo. There are moments when it feels to me like they're literally acting out scenes or exchanges from the show, but the tone in live-action then becomes kinda cartoony. And compared to other anime, it wasn't a "cartoony" cartoon despite having a lot of the goofier anime tropes and slapstick. I know it's just a teaser, but maybe they'll have one that captures the more solemn space-noir western feel that counter-balanced the sillier moments. That's just my gut reaction. (it reminds me of the "Speed Racer" movie in not the best way)
The fighting looks pretty good though, and I think Cho works as Spike.
The new Teaser is pretty fun....damn I haven't seen the anime since I was in college....atleast now I can watch both. .
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It looked ok-ish, but it's not going to as good the anime. Thing is, a lot of what made the anime great ( not just the writing, but the design, the flow of the animation, the atmosphere, the mix of film and animation genres and cultures...) simply can't be re-created in live action ( at least not easily ).
The panel stuff wouldn't be out of place in say, a Studio trigger adaptation (Kill La Kill did that kind of thing all the time), but CB mostly stayed away from those kind of things. I don't think CB ever had, say speed lines (Unless you count the gateway stuff, but that was mostly just the FTL star streaks kind of thing). The most exaggerated movement/facial expressions the show ever used I think was stuff dealing with Ed and Pierrot.
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