Based on the worldwide phenomenon from Sunrise Inc., “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.
Netflix announced last year that a 10-episode live-action series from writer and executive producer Christopher Yost (Thor: The Dark World, Thor: Ragnarok) is on the way, and Variety reports today that John Cho (Searching) will lead the last as Spike Spiegel.
Mustafa Shakir (“Luke Cage”), Daniella Pineda (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, pictured below), and Alex Hassell (“Genius”) have also landed lead roles. Shakir is Jet Black, Pineda is Faye Valentine and Hassell is Vicious, the Syndicate’s most notorious hitman.
The series is a co-production between Netflix and Tomorrow Studios (a partnership between Marty Adelstein and ITV Studios). Netflix will handle physical production.
Showrunners / Executive Producers: Andre Nemec, Josh Appelbaum, Jeff Pinkner and Scott Rosenberg of Midnight Radio.
Executive Producers: Marty Adelstein and Becky Clements of Tomorrow Studios (Snowpiercer, Good Behavior); Yasuo Miyakawa, Masayuki Ozaki, and Shin Sasaki of Sunrise Inc; Tetsu Fujimura and Matthew Weinberg.
