![]() ![]() Jet learns that the pathogen is a nanomachine, a biological weapon that has been illegally manufactured by the pharmaceutical company Cherious Medical. He survived a test of the pathogen, having been immunized, but amnesia and hallucinations have since driven him insane. Faye and Edward identify the terrorist as Vincent Volaju, a soldier who is believed to have been killed on Titan. The Martian government offers a 300 million Woolong bounty for the culprit's capture, which the crew hope to earn. The blast spreads an unknown pathogen that kills and sickens hundreds of people. On Mars, a few days before Halloween, Faye witnesses an unidentified terrorist blow up a tanker truck while chasing another bounty. Together they hunt for wanted fugitives and criminals throughout the solar system. They are Spike Spiegel, a former gangster Faye Valentine, a fugitive Jet Black, a former police officer Radical Edward, a hyperactive girl hacker and Ein, a small dog with enhanced intelligence. The film's protagonists are bounty hunters who travel together on the spaceship Bebop. Humanity has settled on other planets and moons. The film is set in the year 2071, fifty years after a disaster on the Moon caused Earth to be largely abandoned. 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. ![]() 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. 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. Arabic elements also influenced Kanno's music. Arabic aesthetics were used, in contrast to the series, which entailed Watanabe traveling to Morocco for research. Increased budget and production facilities enabled filming styles associated with live action films, as well as higher-quality animation than in the series. So as not to alienate existing fans, much of the series' style was retained, with adjustments to make it accessible to a new audience. The film was conceived by Watanabe as an extension of his work on the television series, which he had treated as a series of miniature films. The bounty hunter crew of the spaceship Bebop works to capture the terrorist and prevent the attack. The plot centers on a mysterious terrorist planning to exterminate the human population of Mars by releasing a virus. The Japanese and English voice casts also reprised their roles.Ĭowboy Bebop: The Movie is set between episode 22 and episode 23 of the original series. Several 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 anime science fiction action film based on the 1998 anime series Cowboy Bebop created by Hajime Yatate. While the creators behind the series have been hinting that Ed will have some sort of influence on the first season of the live-action series, they've been tight-lipped as to whether someone will be playing the hacker or if Ed will remain in the shadows and not join up with the Bebop in season one.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. While many of the characters from the original series will be making a return, one of the biggest characters of the franchise has yet to be revealed in Ed, the hacker of the Bebop who might not be deadly with a gun but had ample opportunity in the source material to show her skills. With the series recently revealing its first trailer, fans are crossing their fingers that the upcoming series will live up to the source material. This November will see the beloved anime franchise of Cowboy Bebop given new life via the live-action adaptation by Netflix that will see John Cho as Spike Spiegel, Daniella Pineda as Faye Valentine, and Mustafa Shakir as Jet Black to name a few, and while the streaming service had released new character posters for Spike and Jet earlier today, the platform has revealed more posters for the likes of Ein, Vicious, Julia and Faye.
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