Netflix’s live-action series adaptation of iconic anime “Cowboy Bebop” has finally wrapped production, nearly eighteen months after it first kicked off shooting.
The series first began its 6-7 month shoot in New Zealand in October 2019 but was halted only a few days later after star John Cho suffered a major on-set injury that reportedly required the entire production to delay at least seven months.
Rather than recast, Netflix opted to delay and use his rehabilitation downtime to further develop the scripts, bring in original director Shinichiro Watanabe as a creative consultant, and begin early work on the writing for the second season.
Things were gearing up to return in mid-2020 when the pandemic closed everything down globally. Filming finally began in September last year and now it is finally done with actress Danielle Pineda confirming the wrap on her Instagram.
She stars in the series as Faye Valentine along with Cho as Spike Spiegel, Mustafa Shakir as Jet Black, Alex Hassell as Vicious, and Elena Satine as Julia.
The original 1998 series ran for 26 episodes and followed a crew of intergalactic loners who team up to become bounty hunters. The work is considered one of the most defining works of the anime genre alongside such classic greats as “Akira,” “Ghost in the Shell” and “Neon Genesis Evangelion”.
The ten-episode series is being directed by Michael Katleman and Alex Garcia Lopez with Christopher Yost and Javier Grillo-Marxuach serving as writers.
