John Cho To Headline Netflix’s Live-Action ‘Cowboy Bebop’ Series

It seems that Netflix have found their leading cosmic cowboy for their upcoming live-action Cowboy Bebop series in John Cho (Star Trek, Twilight Zone).

John Cho will be headlining the Cowboy Bebop cast as Spike Spiegel, leader of the intergalactic gang. Also joining John Cho will be Mustafa Shakir (Luke Cage) as Jet Black, Alex Hassell (The Miniaturist) as Vicous and Daniella Pineda (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom) as Faye Valentine in the upcoming adaption of the hugely popular anime of space bounty hunters.

Josh Applebaum, Jeff Pinkner, André Nemec, and Scott Rosenberg of Midnight Radio will be showrunning and executive producing the series. Alex Garcia will be directing the first two episodes. Garcia is also known for his directing work for live-action Marvel series like Cloak and Dagger and Netflix’s Luke Cage and Daredevil . The first of the ten episode season will been written by Chris Yost (Marvel’s Thor: Ragnarok).

The director of the original 1998 Cowboy Bebop anime, Shinichiro Watanabe, will be a consultant on the series. The original series spawned a manga series and a movie before making its way to western audiences in 2001. The series was certainly influential as part of a new wave of anime hitting the U.S. in the early 2000s.

The original Cowboy Bebop anime followed the bounty hunter crew of the Bebop in their adventures across space. The series mainly focused on Spike Spiegel, the carefree cool guy dealing the effects of his troubled past, and his partner Jet Black, the uptight and cynical captain of the Bebop, as well as the rest of the crew.

Soon to feature in the upcoming Wunderkind episode of Jordan Peele’s (Us, Get Out) highly anticipated reboot of The Twilight Zone, John Cho is also set to star in a remake of The Grudge and Alan Yang’s love story Tigertail on Netflix.

Stay tuned to Heroic Hollywood for more updates on Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop series.

Source: Netflix