Netflix’s highly anticipated live-action series adaptation of the iconic 26-episode anime classic “Cowboy Bebop” will reportedly not violate the original’s established canon.
Speaking with EW ahead of the show’s release later this year, series showrunner Andre Nemec says those involved are taking great care with this adaptation which aims to expand the canon rather than subvert or contradict it:
“I promise we will never take the original anime away from the purists. It will always exist out there. But I’m very excited about the stories that we’re telling. I believe we’ve done a really nice job of not violating the canon in any direction but merely offering some extra glimpses into the world that was already created.
We got under the skin of who the live-action characters were going to be. I think that the poetic nature of the anime absolutely allowed for us to mine the archetypal nature of the characters and dig out deeper histories that we wanted to explore – and answer some of the questions that the anime leaves you with. I think to just redo the anime will leave an audience hungry for something that they already saw. The anime did an amazing job. We don’t need to serve the exact same meal. I think it would have been disappointing if we did.”
The full ten episodes of “Cowboy Bebop” will arrive on Netflix on November 19th with the first trailer likely to debut during this weekend’s TUDUM event by Netflix. The series stars John Cho as Spike Spiegel, Mustafa Shakir as Jet Black, Daniella Pineda as Faye Valentine, Alex Hassell as Vicious, and Elena Satine as Julia.
