The COWBOY BEBOP Anime Series is Coming To Netflix and The Original Voice Cast Will Return For The Live-Action Series
Netflix has announced that they will be streaming all 26-episodes of the original Cowboy Bebop anime series ahead of the premiere on its highly-anticipated live-action adaptation. The series has already been streaming on Hulu. Netflix also released an announcement trailer that you can watch below.
The action-adventure space-western series was directed by Shinichirō Watanabe, written by Keiko Nobumoto, with Toshihiro Kawamoto as character designer, Kimitoshi Yamane as mechanical designer, and Yoko Kanno as composer.
Watanabe is a creative consultant on the live-action adaptation and Kanno will also be returning to score the live action series. On top of that, it was announced that the original voice cast for the series will reprise their roles for the Japanese dub of the live-action series. That’s pretty damn cool!
Koichi Yamadera will be returning as Spike, Taiten Kusunoki will play Jet, Megumi Hayashibara is back as Faye, Norio Wakamoto as Vicious, Gara Takashima as Julia, Tsutomu Taruki as Punch, Miki Nagasawa as Judy, Takaya Hashi as the Teddy Bomber, Kenyu Horiuchi as Gren, Masako Isobe as Mao, and Romi Park and Hikaru Midorikawa as the twins Shin and Lin. Yamadera shared in a statement:
"Cowboy Bebop is an important work for me. I have long anticipated a live-action version. I can feel the strong respect it has toward the anime. I hope that viewers will see the atmosphere of the Spike character that I previously portrayed in John Cho's performance, who is skillfully taking on the role in this version. There are also many settings and developments that can only be pulled off in a live-action series. I hope that both people who love Cowboy Bebop and those who are new to the title can enjoy this new series!"
Cowboy Bebop is an action-packed 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.
John Cho plays Spike in the live-action series and he’s joined by 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).
Cowboy Bebop is set to premiere on November 19th.
Source: Entertainment Weekly