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Netflix has set the main cast for its live-action
Cowboy Bebop series, and
Star Trek's John Cho will star as Spike Spiegel.
Also on board are Mustafa Shakir (
Marvel’s Luke Cage) as Spike's partner Jet Black, Daniella Pineda (
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom; What/If) as "bold, brash and unpredictable bounty hunter" Faye Valentine, and Alex Hassell (
The Miniaturist; Suburbicon) as the Syndicate’s most notorious hitman and Spike's arch-enemy, Vicious.
There's no word on who'll be portraying Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV, a.k.a Radical Ed.
Cowboy Bebop will be exec produced and written by Christopher Yost (
Thor), who will also serve as showrunner along with Andre Nemec, Josh Appelbaum, Jeff Pinkner and Scott Rosenberg of Midnight Radio; Marty Adelstein and Becky Clements of Tomorrow Studios; Yasuo Miyakawa, Masayuki Ozaki, and Shin Sasaki of Sunrise Inc. The original anime's director Shinichiro Watanabe is on board as a consultant.
Check out the official synopsis below, and let us know what you think of this casting news in the comments.
Based on the worldwide phenomenon from Sunrise Inc., 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.
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