Promo Video for Netflix's COWBOY BEBOP Series Coming This Fall
Netflix has shared a new promo video for its upcoming live-action adaptation of the classic anime series Cowboy Bebop. The video features John Cho, Mustafa Shakir, and Daniella Pineda who are playing Spike Spiegel, Jet Black, and Faye Valentine in the series.
Together they are jamming to the tunes of Yoko Kanno’s jazz theme, “Tank.” Fans will be happy to learn that the original series composer is coming back for the Netflix show and creating original music.
The promo also reveals the series will premiere in the fall! Cowboy Bebop, which wrapped production in March, tells the genre-bending story of a rag-tag crew of bounty hunters on the run from their pasts, as they hunt down the solar system’s most dangerous criminals.
The series also stars Alex Hassell as Vicious and Elena Satine as Julia. They will be joined by 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 first season of the Cowboy Bebop series will consist of ten episodes. Christopher Yost is also a writer and executive producer on the show. He previously worked on Thor: Ragnarok, Thor: The Dark World, Star Wars Rebels, Hulk Vs, X-Men: Evolution, The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, and more.
Midnight Radio’s André Nemec and Jeff Pinkner are executive producers on the series and they also serve as showrunners. Josh Appelbaum and Scott Rosenberg of Midnight Radio executive produce with Marty Adelstein and Becky Clements of Tomorrow Studios, Yasuo Miyakawa, Masayuki Ozaki, and Shin Sasaki of Sunrise Inc; along with Tim Coddington, Tetsu Fujimura, Michael Katleman and Matthew Weinberg. Shinichiro Watanabe, director of the original anime, serves as a consultant.