Mustafa shakur11/6/2022 ![]() ![]() “Oh, they made it really fun,” Shakir told reporters. The two operate from the Bebop, yet there are secrets left untold here-all of them Spike’s. His partner, Jet Black, is played with great physicality by Mustafa Shakir (“Marvel’s Luke Cage”), a betrayed ISSP detective who’s been branded dirty. ![]() He’s also attired perfectly in Spike Spiegel’s suit. Cho is the actor who is closest to his anime equivalent, grimly determined, good in a fight, and still possessed a sense of humor. The best thing the show has going is really the cast. Set to Kanno’s atmospheric music, it’s different, and new to hardcore “Cowboy Bebop” anime fans, so your interstellar mileage will vary. It feels like a mashup of Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner” and Joss Whedon’s “Firefly.” In fact, outside the still fantastic opening sequence set to the Seatbelt’s “Tank!” (one of the best ever), the series is kind of a “Cowboy Bebop” for those who have never seen “Cowboy Bebop.” There are nods here and there to the original, but it is very much its own thing, developed by showrunner Christopher Yost (“The Mandalorian”). ![]() Netflix’s “Cowboy Bebop” is not a cell-by-cell copy of the original. And the less said about 2009’s “Dragonball Evolution,” the better.īut this time, Netflix was partnering with Tomorrow Studios and-most importantly-Watanabe and Kanno were involved (in fact, Kanno and her band the Seatbelts appear in almost every episode).īut one does not turn a 27-piece series into a 10-episode series. Yes, the four “Ruroni Kenshin” with Takeru Satoh as the titular swordsman may even be better than the source material, but for every such victory you get the likes of 2015’s “Attack on Titan” (ugh) and 2011’s “Ranma 1/2” (yes, they dared). The record of adapting anime to live-action is, to be honest, abysmal. Indeed, they got everybody and their stuff, went 3-2-1 and just jammed.Įven then, one could understand the apprehension all around when it was announced that Netflix was going to adapt “Cowboy Bebop” into a 10-episode series. The result is a violent but sexy, sci-fi jazz concoction. “Cowboy Bebop” is considered one of the most original anime ever, partly due to the freedom its creators were given by studio Sunrise, but mostly by two people, director/mastermind Shinichiro Watanabe, and composer Yokko Kanno. It can be an unforgiving place where bounty hunters called cowboys live from bounty to bounty while a criminal organization called the Red Dragon Syndicate runs the illegal side of town constantly ahead of the Inter Solar System Police (ISSP). “Cowboy Bebop,” released in 1998 is a 26-episode series (plus one movie) set in the future where an interstellar gate accident has rendered the Earth uninhabitable and thus humanity now lives in space. And I don’t think I thought in terms of difference, or same, it was really more make real.” I was really just trying to get in there look like him, move like him and then feel like him in those in those moments. “You know, I was trying to see if I could get inside there and bring myself in and see what happens if I you know what if I were that person and, I tried my best to humanize a two- dimensional illustration. “I don’t know that I approached it thinking I’m going to be different,” Cho told Super over Zoom. He wasn’t about doing a slavish copy of the anime. Now that’s dedication.Īnd for Cho, that’s what playing Spike has been all about. Like many anime characters, Spike has a distinctively crazy haircut, but Cho (“Star Trek,” “Searching”) instead chose to grow his hair until it was a close enough approximation of Spike’s. For John Cho, who plays the series’ protagonist Spike Spiegel, it even got to the point of refusing to wear a wig. How do you go about making a live-action adaptation of, “Cowboy Bebop,” one of the most iconic Japanese anime of all time? You make it real. The crew: (From left) Daniella Pienda as Faye Valentine, John Cho as Spike Spiegel and Mustafa Shakur as Jet Black–NETFLIX ![]()
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