Cowboy Bebop Trailer Shows Live-Action Spike Spiegel, Faye & Jet Black
Netflix debuts the official Cowboy Bebop trailer offering the first look at the live-action adaptation of the iconic anime series. The sci-fi neo-Western revolves around a group of bounty hunters traveling through the galaxy hunting down targeets while occasionally being forced to confront the demons of their past. The cast for Cowboy Bebop is led by John Cho as Spike Spiegel, Daniella Pineda as Faye Valentine, Mustafa Shakir as Jet Black, Alex Hassell as Vicious and Elena Satine as Julia.
The original Cowboy Bebop anime first premiered in 1998 and has received rave reviews from critics and audiences alike in the years since, being hailed as one of the greatest animated and anime shows of all time and cited as one of the main projects to introduce Western viewers to anime at the time. Development on the live-action adaptation first began in 2017 as original creative team Sunrise Inc. teamed with Tomorrow Studios to produce the project, with Netflix acquiring the rights shortly thereafter with André Nemec attached as showrunner and The Mandalorian's Christopher Yost penning the script. The wait for Cowboy Bebop's arrival is nearly over and Netflix is ready to give fans the ultimate first look at the series.
With less than a month remaining until the show's premiere, Netflix has finally unveiled the official Cowboy Bebop trailer. The video offers the first proper look at the live-action adaptation of the iconic anime, including expansions on the source material. Check out the Cowboy Bebop trailer below:
Audiences have anxiously awaited the arrival of the first Cowboy Bebop trailer to get a sense of how well the series adapts the iconic anime and with it now here, it certainly looks to capture the promise seen in the teasers thus far. Between the comedic banter between its central trio to the direct adaptations of some of the anime's most celebrated storylines, including "The Ballad of Fallen Angels" and "Asteroid Blues," the creative team behind the series have clearly gone to great lengths to properly capture the tone and character arcs from the source material. Though at the same time, the trailer is still likely to come as divisive amongst many anime fans.
Where the original Cowboy Bebop rarely explicitly revealed details about Spike's past to the audience, the trailer for the live-action adaptation seems to indicate a deeper focus on this element, including the tease that he was not born with the name Spike Spiegel. However, with the trailer still showing plenty of the show's original spirit and action and showrunner Nemec having stated the series will be an expansion of the Cowboy Bebop anime, there's still plenty of potential for the series to break the live-action anime curse. Only time will tell when Cowboy Bebop hits Netflix on November 19.
Source: Netflix