Cowboy Bebop will soon be adapted in live series

Cowboy Bebop, the Japanese animated series of 1998, is going to be renewed soon with an adaptation in a series "live", that is to say with real actors, reports Variety. Tomorrow Studios is expected to take charge of the adaptation, the screenplay of which will be written by Chris Yost (Thor: The World of Darkness, Thor: Ragnarok).


Until now, Cowboy Bebop's universe was limited to a 26-episode animated series, an animated movie released in 2001, a few mangas written by the Sunrise studio team, and two video games released on PlayStation and PS2 in 1998 and 2005, only in Japan. It will now be necessary to count on this new project to adapt the space bounty hunters, this time in live series. For the moment, no information is known about the possible casting to incarnate the characters of Spike Spiegel, Jet Black, Faye Valentine or Ed, or even on the story that will be told for the occasion. In the original scenario, which takes place in 2071, the four heroes are bounty hunters, called "cowboys", who roam the space in search of missions to fulfill while the intimate past of each one of them gradually catches up with them .

This is not the first time that Cowboy Bebop has been the subject of an adaptation project in Hollywood. In 2008, Fox announced it had secured the rights to a film in the cinema, which had been produced by Erwin Stoff (producer of Matrix, I am a legend or Edge of Tomorrow). The project has since fallen into oblivion and has never seen the light of day. For this new adaptation, the Japanese studio Sunrise, which had created the original series, will be involved in the production.