Netflix has granted a 10-episode series order to Cowboy Bebop, a live-action adaptation of the beloved Japanese anime series, Deadline has revealed.
Written by Chris Yost (Thor: Ragnarok), Cowboy Bebop tells “the jazz-inspired, genre-bending story of Spike Spiegel, Jet Black, Faye Valentine and Radical Ed: a rag-tag 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.”
The live-action series will be a co-production between Netflix and Tomorrow Studios, with Yost serving as an executive producer alongside Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec, Jeff Pinkner and Scott Rosenberg of Midnight Radio. Shinichiro Watanabe, director of the original anime, is also attached as a consultant.
Cowboy Bebop ran for 26 episodes between 1997 and 1998 and was followed by the 2001 anime feature Cowboy Bebop: The Movie. It is widely regarded as one of the best anime series of all time, and credited as helping to introduce anime to a new generation of Western viewers in the early 2000s.
