‘Cowboy Bebop’ reveals first photos, premiere date

Netflix has released the first photos of the upcoming adaptation of “Cowboy Bebop” starring John Cho, which will premiere on November 19.

Based on the famous animated series of the same name from the late ’90s, this live-action reboot is a space western that follows a team of bounty hunters led by Spike Spiegel (Cho), Jet Black (Mustafa Shakir) and Faye Valentine ( Daniella Pineda) stalks criminals throughout the solar system while trying to escape their own dark past.

Cho is best known for his roles in the “Harold and Kumar” films and the rebooted “Star Trek” films, with more recent credits including “Searching” and Season 2 of “The Exorcist”. Shakir is known to have played Bushmaster in Marvel’s “Luke Cage”, while Pineda played Zia Rodriguez in “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Also on the bill are Alex Hassell (“The Miniaturist”) and Elena Satine (“Vengeance”).

The “Cowboy Bebop” reboot was first announced in 2017 and taken over by Netflix in 2018. The original anime, which premiered in 1998, proved to be a major commercial and critical success despite the fact that the entire television series only consisted of 26 episodes. It inspired two manga series and an animated film, the latter of which was released in the United States in 2003.

André Nemec is showrunner and executive producer for Midnight Studios with Jeff Pinkner, Josh Appelbaum and Scott Rosenberg. Executive producers are also Tim Coddington, Tetsu Fujimura, Michael Katleman, Matthew Weinberg and Christopher Yost, as well as Marty Adelstein and Becky Clements of Tomorrow Studios and Makoto Asanuma, Shin Sasaki and Masayuki Ozaki of Sunrise Inc. Shinichirō Watanabe, director of the original anime, is a consultant on the series, and original songwriter Yoko Kanno returns for the live-action adaptation.

See the first images below.