COWBOY BEBOP Showrunner Has Big Plans for Season 2
Netflix’s live-action Cowboy Bebop series looks like it’s going to be an awesome adaptation, and it seems like a show that fans of the original anime are going to have a blast watching. I personally love what I’ve seen from the series, and I’m pumped up to watch the first season.
The showrunner of the series, André Nemec, has big plans for the future of the show, and he wants the CEO of Netflix Ted Sarandos to know it. While speaking to THR at the Goya Studios premiere, he said:
"If Ted Sarandos comes by, you tell him I got big plans for season two. We definitely know where we want to go, and I'm excited that we get to tell those stories. Fingers crossed that we get more 'Cowboy Bebop.'"
It looks to me like the creative team has made a great show that that they’ve actually pulled off something special. But, we’ll just have to wait and see how the series and the story actually plays out.
Cowboy Bebop is a 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.
Original anime series director Shinichirō Watanabe is a consultant on the series, and original composer Yoko Kanno returns for the live-action adaptation. The series stars John Cho as Spike Spiegel, Mustafa Shakir as Jet Black, Daniella Pineda as Faye Valentine, Alex Hassell as Vicious, Elena Satine as Julia, Geoff Stults (Little Fires Everywhere, 12 Strong), Tamara Tunie (Black Earth Rising, Dietland), Mason Alexander Park (Hedwig and the Angry Inch National Broadway Tour), Rachel House (Thor Ragnarok, Soul), Ann Truong (Strikeback!, Hard Target 2), and Hoa Xuande (Ronny Chieng: International Student, Top of the Lake).
The series is executive produced by André Nemec, Jeff Pinkner, Josh Appelbaum, and Scott Rosenberg of Midnight Radio, Marty Adelstein and Becky Clements of Tomorrow Studios, Makoto Asanuma, Shin Sasaki and Masayuki Ozaki of Sunrise Inc., Tim Coddington, Tetsu Fujimura, Michael Katleman, Matthew Weinberg, and Christopher Yost (Thor: Ragnarok, Thor: The Dark World, Star Wars Rebels, Hulk Vs, X-Men: Evolution, The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes).
Cowboy Bebop is set to premiere on November 19th.