Writer Peter Craig Speaks on Cowboy Bebop Flick

[democritus]

So, when the Cowboy Bebop movie was first announced , I spent some time facing the perilous prospect of cold-calling a Hollywood studio in hopes of getting a few questions about the project answered. I was relieved when I was able to get in touch with people involved fairly quickly, and even got my answers-- direct from writer Peter Craig, who's writing the script for the film! Craig is also known for the dark comedy novel "The Martini Shot," which sits well with us here at Whiskey Media, as it happens.

Without further ado, here's more on the Bebop project:



ANIME VICE: How did you come to be a part of the Cowboy Bebop project?

PETER CRAIG: I'm obviously not the most likely writer to land a great project like this. I began as a novelist, and was steered into writing screenplays when I adapted two of my own crime novels after they were optioned. Eventually, I earned a decent reputation for writing certain kinds of characters: disaffected men, dysfunctional families, poker-playing con-women, weathered ex-cops. A couple of things I've written are going into production this summer - but they've been circulating much longer. So studios and producers were familiar with my work here.

Even though I'd never written Sci-Fi, Emma Watts and Erwin Stoff really believed that I might relate well to Spike, Faye, and Jet -- as well as many of the minor characters from the episodes. When I heard I might have a chance for the job, I was thrilled. Fox sent me every episode of "Cowboy Bebop," including a few that had never aired in the U.S. I think I watched all of them consecutively one night until the sun came up - and by the end, I was obsessed with the show. I loved how it mixed genres, how it blended noir, Jazz, Yakuza movies, Westerns, and so much else into a vision of the future that worked. And so I entered that process of going after the job, giving my "take" on the movie, competing with other writers. Ultimately, I got the job because Erwin Stoff and Emma Watts had liked my work in the past -- and they saw that I was passionate about it.


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[cyana]

Since Sunrise is going to be actively involved in this movie, I'm thinking that it'll be pretty good. It helps to have the writer be a fan of the show, too.

[ohyasutake]

well, as long as Watanabe's involved - and STAYS involved in the production.