6 Things Netflix’s Live-Action Cowboy Bebop Remake Must Do
4. Don’t Follow Death Note
This entry could just be called ‘Don’t Be Terrible’ and be done with it, but there is more to the comparison than that. Death Note is one of the most high profile anime to live action adaptions to date, and easily the biggest disappointment.
Either to help the movie’s pacing, to substitute tension out for action or to make the storyline more palpable for Western audiences, Death Note changed almost everything from the source material. The Nat Wolff led movie wasn’t all that great anyway, but as a comparison the Death Note it came off worse in every way.
There is no point butchering Cowboy Bebop so much; why remake it if you’re going to change it? There are several things in Cowboy Bebop that might seem like they need toned down, but Netflix can’t pick up a show like this then try and sand it down into something rounder with a mass market appeal.
The original Cowboy Bebop features a Blaxploitation bounty hunter who constantly carries a coffin around with him to bury his enemy in. This is what Netflix have bought. This is what Netflix needs to give us.