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Cowboy Bebop’s Showrunner Explains What He Added to the Anime and Why
André Nemec, the showrunner for Netflix’s upcoming live-action adaptation of the monstrously popular 1998 anime series Cowboy Bebop, has said many times that fans shouldn’t expect his show to be a one-to-one remake of the original. That was abundantly clear when the first Cowboy Bebop trailer dropped this week, which was recognisably Bebop, but offered glimpses…
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Cowboy Bebop, Not To Be Confused With Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop, Also Coming to Netflix
In a few weeks’ time, Netflix’s upcoming live-action adaptation of Shinichirō Watanabe’s Cowboy Bebop will finally drop, and fans across the world will have have a chance to meet new versions of Spike, Jett, and Faye who they’ll undoubtedly want to compare to their animated counterparts. In anticipation of viewers’ needs to compare and contrast,…
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John Cho’s Hair Was Almost as Vital to Cowboy Bebop as Anything Else
Cowboy Bebop’s lived-in fusion of sci-fi urban design, Western shantytowns, and interstellar mechanical design is so important to its tone and feel that any live-action adaptation has to nail it to “get” Bebop. But as Netflix’s upcoming series apparently learned, of equal importance was ensuring John Cho went through some awkward hair phases to play Spike…
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Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop Will Get Its Own Comic Series
After all, the original anime did have its own manga, Shooting Star, so why not?