Elena Satine (The Gifted, Revenge, Strange Angel) has joined Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop live-action adaptation in a key role, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
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Satine will play Julia, a mysterious woman from Spike Spiegel’s (John Cho) past. Julia is described as a sultry beauty with a voice to die for. She’s the dream-like object of Spike Spiegel’s desire and struggles to survive in a violent world.
The 10-episode adaptation also stars Mustafa Shakir, Danielle Pineda, and Alex Hassell. Shakir (Luke Cage) will play good cop Jet Black, Pineda (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom) will play the bounty hunter Faye Valentine, and Hassell (Suburbicon) will play Vicious, Spike’s vindictive ex-partner.
The live-action Cowboy Bebop will be a 10-episode series co-produced by Netflix and Tomorrow Studios, with Netflix handling the physical production.
Christopher Yost wrote the first episode and serves as an executive producer. Andre Nemec, Josh Appelbaum, Jeff Pinkner and Scott Rosenberg of Midnight Radio will handle showrunning and executive producer duties. Other executive producers include Marty Adelstein and Becky Clements of Tomorrow Studios (Snowpiercer, Good Behavior); Yasuo Miyakawa, Masayuki Ozaki, and Shin Sasaki of Sunrise Inc; Tetsu Fujimura and Matthew Weinberg. The director of the original anime series, Shinichiro Watanabe, is acting as a consultant.
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Cowboy Bebop first premiered in 1998 and tells the story of The Bebop crew, intergalactic loners who team up to track down fugitives and turn them in for cold hard cash. Among the crew is Spike Spiegel, a hero whose cool façade hides a dark and deadly past; the pilot Jet, a bruiser of a brute who can’t wait to collect the next bounty; and Faye Valentine, a femme fatale prone to breaking hearts and separating fools from their money. Set against the backdrop of space in the year 2017, along for the ride are the brilliant, but weird, hacker Ed, and a super-genius Welsh Corgi named Ein.
The series ran for just 26 episodes and one special in the late 1990s and later had a feature film, Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, released in 2001 and set during the series instead of serving as a follow-up.
