Cowboy Bebop

March 16, 2021

Filming Wraps For Season One Of Live-Action Cowboy Bebop

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It’s been a while since we last heard that Netflix was interested in making a live-action take on the world’s greatest anime, and sometimes that means abandonment, but…not this time. The latest news from the set is that it’s done. Season 1 of Cowboy Bebop has filmed all its scenes and just needs post-production work to be complete. Daniella Pineda, who’s playing Faye on the show, leaked the news via an Instagram photo. “I’m coming back on the air to say…..Season 1 of COWBOY BEBOP is finally, finished. Gonna dip again but will return after these messages.” The show also stars John Cho as Spike, Mustafa Shakir as Jet, Alex Hassell as Vicious and Elena Satine as Julia. (But who is Ed? We can’t do this without Ed…) If it feels like forever since we heard filming had started, there’s a reason. It began with a series of New Zealand shoots in 2019, until Cho suffered a knee injury and everyone else had to wait while he healed. Then, once

May 1, 2020

The Real Folk Blues Charity Single Supports COVID-19 Relief

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It’s a tune you know well, though you kinda need to be fluent in Japanese to sing it accurately. “The Real Folk Blues” is the jazzy number that closes out every episode of one of the greatest anime productions of all time, Cowboy Bebop. Now composer Mason Lieberman has united talent from the video game and anime industries to create a new rendition of the iconic closing theme. Yoko Kanno and her band, the Seatbelts, are back, along with original cast members and other top-drawer talent (just check out the credits list at the end of this article — it’s a wonder). All proceeds from sales of The Real Folk Blues will go to support Doctors Without Borders and the CDC Founation’s COVID-19 response. “This project grew out of the goal of creating something fun and beautiful with the huge number of available musicians who have been sidelined as COVID-19 shuts down our entire industry,” explains project organizer Mason Lieberman. “As it snowballed and grew, I realized we needed to

April 5, 2019

Meet Cowboy Bebop’s Killer Cast

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Is it a good idea to attempt a live-action remake of what many consider the greatest TV anime of all time? We still don’t know, but the newly released cast list for Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop gives us confidence they may be able to pull it off. John Cho, star of several recent Star Trek movies (as Sulu) as well as the movie Searching, has been cast as the flesh-and-blood Spike Spiegel. (Is Spike actually Asian? Is he Jewish? Both? No one knows.) He’ll be sharing the ship with Mustafa Shakir as Jet Black…Shakir has been seen on Netflix already, as season two’s villain Bushmaster. Daniella Pineda is Faye Valentine, and you might know her from……okay, did any of you REALLY see “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom”? None of you? That’s what I thought. Then you don’t know her. Rounding out the list of announcements is Alex Hassell as Vicious, Spike’s former partner and mortal enemy. All in all, a very strong list of picks. But what about the most important cast

November 28, 2018

Netflix Confirms Live-Action Cowboy Bebop Series

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To those of you who’ve been seething over Netflix’s latest rash of weak live-action remakes of classic anime properties, this is the moment you’ve been dreading — but knew was inevitable. Cowboy Bebop, considered the pinnacle of Japanese animated television, will be turned into a “realistic” property by Netflix soon. The streaming giant announced the project late Tuesday evening. It’s not the first time CB has been earmarked for Americanization, but it’s the closest it has come to getting there. A feature film starring Keanu Reeves as Spike Spiegel was on the table for years before Tinseltown abandoned it. Usually by the time Netflix formally announces a show, it has committed to seeing it through. Netflix is co-producing the new Cowboy Bebop with Tomorrow Studios. Andre Nemec, Josh Appelbaum and Jeff Pinkner and Scott Rosenberg will serve as showrunners. Marty Adelstein, Becky Clements, Yasuo Miyakawa, Masayuki Ozaki, Shin Sasaki, Tetsu Fujimura and Matthew Weinberg will executive produce various episodes (there will be ten in the ordered season). Creator Shinichiro Watanabe

June 6, 2017

Cowboy Bebop Live-Action TV Show in the Works

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Deadline reports that Cowboy Bebop might return as a new live-action TV series from Tomorrow Studios. The cult anime TV series, which gained a lot of recognition and popularity in the US is currently in development as a joint project by ITV Studios and Tomorrow Studios. The project is reportedly part of a joint venture for Marty Adelstein and ITV Studios. Tomorrow Studios is also teaming with Midnight Radio, who will executive produce alongside Sunrise, the studio for the original show. Marty Adelstein, Becky Clements, and Matthew Weinberg are all attached to executive produce the series as well. Chris Yost, the writer behind Thor: The Dark World, Thor: Ragnarok, and The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes is set to write the TV series. Considering Yost’s pedigree with comics and even popular animated shows such as Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, Tomorrow Studios could’ve done a lot worse. The sci-fi genre mash-up series followed the exploits of space bounty hunter Spike Spiegel and his friends of fellow bounty hunters aboard the spaceship Bebop as they