Netflix has announced that Elena Satine (Revenge, The Gifted) has been cast in its upcoming live-action adaptation of the cult anime series Cowboy Bebop.
Satine – whose other credits include Smallville, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Twin Peaks and Strange Angel – is set to portray Julia, “a mysterious woman from lead character Spike Spiegel’s past [who] is described as a sultry beauty with a voice to die for. She’s the dreamlike object of Spiegel’s desire and struggles to survive in a violent world.”
Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop is described as a “jazz-inspired, genre-bending story of 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.”
Searching star John Cho is set to lead the cast as Spike Spiegel alongside Mustafa Shakir (Luke Cage) as Jet Black, Daniella Pineda (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom) as Faye Valentine and Alex Hassell (The Boys) as Vicious.
Cowboy Bebop is a co-production between Netflix and Tomorrow Studios, and sees Christopher Yost executive-producing with Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec, Jeff Pinkner and Scott Rosenberg of Midnight Radio, and Yasuo Miyakawa, Masayuki Ozaki, and Shin Sasaki of anime studio Sunrise Inc.
Via THR
