Netflix Picks Up COWBOY BEBOP Live-Action Series For Co-Production And Distribution
Following the news of a live-action Cowboy Bebop series last June, the word is out as Netflix just announced its acquisition via press release late Tuesday. Netflix will handle physical production and co-produce with Marty Adelstein’s shared Tomorrow Studios shingle with ITV Studios’. Based on Kuga Cain’s Kadokawa Shoten manga and Watanabe Shinichiro’s hit anime series 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. Watanabe himself is serving as a consultant on the ten-episode space saga, the first of which screenwriter Christopher Yost (Thor: The Dark World, Thor: Ragnarok) will put to pen. Yost is also exec producing next to Andre Nemec, Josh Appelbaum, Jeff Pinkner and Scott […]
