The Creative Team of Netflix's Live-Action COWBOY BEBOP Series Is Already Planning Season 2

The first season of Netflix’s live-action Cowboy Bebop series isn’t even finished shooting yet, but the creative team behind it is already planning the show’s second season and writing the script! What else are they going to do while they’re in lockdown!?

Writer and executive producer Jeff Pinkner (Fringe, Lost) is excited to get back to work on the series, which he hopes will make fans of the original 1998 anime series happy. In a recent interview with Observer, before heading off to a “notes call” on the script for Season 2, he expressed his excitement saying:

“I think that I’m very excited by our opportunity to take this iconic anime and bring it to life. I think that our actors are spectacular. The world that we’re creating down in New Zealand that we’re excited to get back to as soon as we can is a really fun, dynamic visualization of this insane anime. I think that because we have these hour-long episodes, we have an opportunity to take the anime and sort of like just deepen and dimensionalize the source material. Really tell stories set in that world in a way that hopefully will not only delight the fans of anime but expose a whole bunch of new people to the world of Cowboy Bebop, the awesome work of Yoko Kanno. It’s a delight. It’s entirely different from Lost in every way but it’s been a joy.”

Cowboy Bebop is 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 cast for the series includes John Cho as Spike Spiegel and Elena Satine as Julia, along with Mustafa Shakir (Luke Cage) as Jet Black, Daniella Pineda (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom) as Faye Valentin, and Alex Hassell (Suburbicon) as Vicious.

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.

Fans have high hopes for this series, and I’m confident that the creative team will deliver an awesome show that people will enjoy!