Netflix has announced that it will be developing a 10-episode live-action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop



Guess it’s time to announce that Cowboy Bebop, the live-action series, is heading to @Netflix. pic.twitter.com/bKe0d8EKoH — NX (@NXOnNetflix) November 28, 2018

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Originally released in Japan in 1998, Cowboy Bebop is "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."Netflix will be producing the new series with Tomorrow Studios and the director of the original anime, Shinichiro Watanabe, will be a consultant on the project.Christopher Yost, who wrote Thor: The Dark World and Thor: Ragnarok, will write the first episode and serve as executive producer. Cowboy Bebop made our list of the seven essential anime that every fan should watch and it means so much to a lot of people around the world, including our very own Jacki Jing. There were reports of this live-action TV series last year, and Netflix has finally confirmed it.Cowboy Bebop's original run consisted of 26 episodes and, when it debuted in the U.S. on Cartoon Network in 2001, became the first anime to appear on Adult Swim.This new take on Cowboy Bebop will join Netflix's anime catalog that will include Neon Genesis Evangelion, new series based on Pacific Rim and Altered Carbon, and much more.

Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN who commends Netflix for all their new adventures, especially one as awesome as Cowboy Bebop. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst.