Variety magazine announced that a live-action television series based on Cain Kuga’s Cowboy Bebop is being created! Sunrise, the animation studio that produced the original 1998 anime will be partnering with Tomorrow Studios to produce the series. Chris Yost will be in charge of writing the TV adaptation while Marty Adelstine will be the producer.
Adelstein said, “We are excited to work with Sunrise in bringing this beloved anime to the U.S. and global marketplace as a live-action series. The animated version has long resonated with audiences worldwide, and with the continued, ever growing, popularity of anime, we believe a live action version will have an incredible impact today.”
No further details pertaining to a release date and number of episodes have been announced yet. The original anime aired from April 1998 to April 1999 and contained 26 episodes. The anime is currently licensed by FUNimation Entertainment for North American distribution.
MyAnimeList.net describes the story of Cowboy Bebop as follows:
In the year 2071, humanity has colonized several of the planets and moons of the solar system leaving the now uninhabitable surface of planet Earth behind. The Inter Solar System Police attempts to keep peace in the galaxy, aided in part by outlaw bounty hunters, referred to as “Cowboys”. The ragtag team aboard the spaceship Bebop are two such individuals.
Mellow and carefree Spike Spiegel is balanced by his boisterous, pragmatic partner Jet Black as the pair makes a living chasing bounties and collecting rewards. Thrown off course by the addition of new members that they meet in their travels—Ein, a genetically engineered, highly intelligent Welsh Corgi; femme fatale Faye Valentine, an enigmatic trickster with memory loss; and the strange computer whiz kid Edward Wong—the crew embarks on thrilling adventures that unravel each member’s dark and mysterious past little by little.
Well-balanced with high density action and light-hearted comedy, Cowboy Bebop is a space Western classic and an homage to the smooth and improvised music it is named after.
