Cowboy Bebop’s Showrunner Explains What He Added to the Anime and Why

André Nemec, the showrunner for Netflix’s upcoming live-action adaptation of the monstrously in style 1998 anime collection Cowboy Bebop, has stated many occasions that followers shouldn’t count on his present to be a one-to-one remake of the unique. That was abundantly clear when the primary Cowboy Bebop trailer dropped this week, which was recognizably Bebop, however supplied glimpses of a few of these small adjustments will annoy nitpicky followers and sure nobody else. But now Nemec has revealed what is probably crucial change to the brand new present.

In an interview with Syfy, Nemec stated the present’s “aged-up feel” was fairly intentional, and for good purpose. He calls the anime’s characters “a little archetypal,” and he’s precisely proper. It doesn’t do the anime any hurt and it’s applicable for the medium, however a live-action collection required including a little bit of depth to Spike Spiegel (John Cho), Jet Black (Mustafa Shakir), and Faye Valentine (Daniella Pineda): “I think that really became clear to me that to really feel for these characters, to really want to track and live with them, they needed real depth of life experience in their soul.”

But the anime nonetheless supplied the highway map for what these expanded experiences can be: “Spike Spiegel is a cowboy with a broken heart, that really is who he is at his core. Jet Black is the eternal optimist, a grumpy guy with a heart of jelly beans. Faye Valentine, at her core, is a survivor. Someone who is not going to let the hardships of the world around her, while they try to keep kicking her down, she continues to press forward. We looked at all of these things. And once we had those, we then began to craft stories for these characters.”

It’s as Nemec has stated earlier than, it’s all about holding true to “the spirit” of the unique anime. Of course, how a lot success he had holding true stays to be seen till November 19, when Cowboy Bebop premieres on Netflix.

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