UPDATE: The official Trailer for Cowboy Bebop is here!
UPDATE: Have a look at the opening credits for Cowboy Bebop below!
UPDATE: Meet Spike Spiegel (John Cho), Jet Black (Mustafa Shakir), and Faye Valentine (Daniella Pineda) in Cowboy Bebop, premiering November 19th, only on Netflix.
Official Synopsis: Cowboy Bebop is an action-packed space Western about three bounty hunters, aka “cowboys,” all trying to outrun the past. As different as they are deadly, Spike Spiegel (John Cho), Jet Black (Mustafa Shakir), and Faye Valentine (Daniella Pineda) form a scrappy, snarky crew ready to hunt down the solar system’s most dangerous criminals — for the right price. But they can only kick and quip their way out of so many scuffles before their pasts finally catch up with them.
SOURCE: Netflix
UPDATE: Looks like Cowboy Bebop is set to premiere on Netflix sometime this Fall.
As you can see from the announcement above, the original anime soundtrack composer Yoko Kanno will be back for the new live action series.
UPDATE: Netflix announced that actress Elena Satine (TV’s The Gifted) has been cast as Julia.
The character is described as “with a sultry beauty and a voice to die for, Julia is the dream-like object of Spike Spiegel’s desire. She struggles to survive in a violent world.”
SOURCE: Comicbook.com
Netflix is bringing the live-action adaptation of the popular anime series Cowboy Bebop to the small screen with John Cho (Searching) taking on the lead!
Joining Cho will be Mustafa Shakir (Marvel’s Luke Cage), Daniella Pineda (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom) and Alex Hassell (The Miniaturist).
Written and executive produced by Chris Yost (Thor: Ragnarok), Cowboy Bebop follows “a ragtag crew of bounty hunters on the run from their pasts as they hunt down the solar system’s most dangerous criminals. They’ll even save the world — for the right price.”
Cho plays Spike Spiegel, an “impossibly cool “cowboy” (bounty hunter) with a deadly smile, a wry wit and style to spare. He travels the solar system with his ex-cop partner pursuing the future’s most dangerous bounties with a combination of charm, charisma and deadly Jeet Kune Do.”
Shakir is Jet Black, Spike’s partner and captain of the Bebop.
Pineda is Faye Valentine, a bounty hunter suffering from amnesia after years of being cryogenically frozen, Faye does whatever it takes to survive — whether she’s lying, stealing or just being a thorn in Spike and Jet’s side.
Hassell is Vicious, Spike’s ex-partner and archenemy.
Cowboy Bebop is co-produced by Netflix with Shinichiro Watanabe (director of the original anime) serving as consultant, so the series is definitely in good hands.
Stay tuned.
SOURCE: Deadline
