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Netflix's Live-Action Cowboy Bebop Show to 'Expand' on Anime's Canon

Cowboy Bebop anime, stated in an interview with entertainment magazine Entertainment Weekly on Tuesday that the live-action adaptation will be an "expansion to the canon" of the anime, adding original stories. He added that the series will not be a full-on remake, saying that "just [redoing] the anime will leave an audience hungry for something that they already saw."

Nemec said the live-action series does "a really nice job of not violating the canon in any direction but merely [offers] some extra glimpses into the world that was already created."

Nemec also revealed in the interview that he was introduced to the anime when he heard some "eclectic, funky jazzy music" from Cowboy Bebop composer Yōko Kanno on the radio while driving in New York. Kanno is herself returning to work on the live-action series.

The 10-episode series will Elena Satine as Julia.

The series is a co-production between Netflix and Scott Rosenberg of Midnight Radio are credited as showrunners and executive producers.

Tomorrow Studios' Marty Adelstein and Chris Yost (Thor: The Dark World, Thor: Ragnarok) is writing the series, and is credited as executive producer.

The original anime series follows the motley crew of the spaceship Bebop as it travels throughout the solar system in search of the next job. The anime inspired screened the film in the United States in 2018, the 20th anniversary of the original series.

Sources: Entertainment Weekly (Nick Romano), IndieWire (Zack Sharf)