Guess itâ€™s time to announce that Cowboy Bebop, the live-action series, is heading to @Netflix. pic.twitter.com/bKe0d8EKoH â€” NX (@NXOnNetflix) November 28, 2018

The Cowboy Bebop live-action series first reported in June 2017 has found a home on Netflix. The streaming service announced the news on Twitter on Tuesday night and confirmedÂ the original creator Shinichiro Watanabe will be consulting on the series and the first episode is written by Chris Yost (Thor: Ragnarok). They’ve ordered ten episodes, according to Deadline,Â from Tomorrow Studios, Midnight Radio, and Sunrise–the studio tied to the original show.Original post:Eighteen years after the final episode of Cowboy Bebop‘s iconic anime series, the crew of the starship Bebop isÂ getting a live-action reboot on television.Variety is reporting that Thor screenwriter and comic book veteran Chris Yost is adapting Cowboy Bebop for television, with SunriseÂ Inc. and Midnight Radio producing the series. The Cowboy Bebop anime debuted in Japan in 1998 and it quickly became one of the most popular series in the world. It was even the first anime to be broadcast on Adult Swim in 2001.

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