The First Cowboy Bebop Trailer Has Finally Landed

Forget the generic weblog preamble! We’ve all been ready endlessly to observe the first actual trailer for Netflix’s live-action Cowboy Bebop collection. The wait is over. Watch.

If you don’t have any attachment to the unique Cowboy Bebop anime collection, I very a lot suspect this appears to be like like a enjoyable, sci-fi collection the place John Cho has a humorous hairdo and chases bounties throughout the solar system together with his pal and the girl he sometimes needs to kill. Also, there’s a enjoyable soundtrack and an lovable corgi.

Why wouldn’t you wish to examine that present out? Well, should you’re some old-school, absolutist fan who loves the unique TV collection so resolutely, so completely, that you simply solely suppose a shot-for-shot remake of the anime must be allowed to exist. Then you’ll doubtless be outraged by actor Daniela Pineda’s much less overtly sexual model of Faye, the (obvious?) lack of the character of Ed, and 100 different medium to minuscule modifications. Changes that may depart a few of you screaming into your pillow at night time, by no means realizing that even when the Netflix adaptation had tried to kowtow to your wishes in each manner, the mere transition from anime to live-action would have necessitated modifications it doesn’t matter what, and also you have been by no means going to be joyful.

But I feel followers of the anime who can really perceive this isn’t precisely Cowboy Bebop can and can benefit from the present as a result of it’s Cowboy Bebop Remix. (Which, truthfully, might be what they need to have referred to as it. It’s not any extra complicated to common audiences than “Cowboy Bebop” is.) It’s taking the beats of the unique collection—actually, within the case of composer Yoko Kanno’s music—the plots of a minimum of a number of the episodes, the artwork model, and the backstories, and goodness is aware of what else, however it’s not slavishly dedicated to recreating the unique body for body. Honestly, these are the bits I feel I like essentially the most—after I really feel this Bebop has the boldness to go off the unique scripts and discover its personal model.

This, in fact, is lots to learn right into a 2.5-minute trailer, nonetheless, 1) that’s what I’m paid to do, however 2) extra importantly, we all know the folks making the Netflix present have been purposefully making an attempt to make their model a remix of the unique. Writer Javier Grillo-Marxuach informed io9 final 12 months, “You’ve got a show where you have 26 episodes that are full of very colorful villains, very colorful stories, very colorful adversaries, bounties, and all of that. We’re not going to go one-to-one on all of those stories because we’re also trying to tell the broader story of Spike Spiegel and the Syndicate, Spike Spiegel and Julia, Spike Spiegel and Vicious, and all that. But we are looking at the show and saying, ‘Who are some of the great villains in this show, and how can we put them into this broader narrative?’ So that we are telling both of the big stories that Cowboy Bebop tells.”

If this primary trailer is an correct indication, the live-action Cowboy Bebop will do precisely that. And if it seems this remix isn’t for you, nicely, you at all times have the unique album. Cowboy Bebop, which stars Cho as Spike Spiegel, Mustafa Shakir as Jet Black, and Pineda as Faye Valentine, premieres on Netflix on November 19.

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