Netflix Orders Live-Action Series Based On Cowboy Bebop

Variety reports that Netflix has ordered ten episodes of a live-action series based on the popular anime Cowboy Bebop. Tomorrow Studios has been working on the adaptation since last year.

Here’s a synopsis: The series is described as 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.

Original anime director Shinichiro Watanabe will be a consultant. Midnight Radio’s Scott Rosenberg will executive produce with Andre Nemec, Josh Appelbaum, Jeff Pinkner, Marty Adelstein, Becky Clements, Tetsu Fujimura, Matthew Weinberg and original series studio Sunrise Inc’s Yasuo Miyakawa, Masayuki Ozaki, and Shin Sasaki. Netflix and Tomorrow Studios will produce with Netflix handling physical production.

The original series ran for 26 episodes and inspired two manga series and an anime film released in the US in 2003.