Netflix, the world’s most well-known streaming content platform, has quite the stake of anime viewership in its ranks of binge-watchers. Not only does it stream popular anime series but also carries exclusive original productions that can only be seen in their online library. This includes live-action adaptations of some anime, though the quality and reception for these are hit-and-miss. For example, Netflix in 2017 released a film adaptation of “Death Note” that Americanized the setting and characters, which got mixed reactions from audiences. It has not deterred the streaming giant as they have started work on a live-action version of “Cowboy Bebop,” which they teased with a cute little video.
As Comic Book Resources tells us, Netflix released a behind-the-scenes
preview of their production preparations for “Cowboy Bebop,” the iconic anime
series produced by animation studio Sunrise under the direction of Shinichiro
Watanabe. At least that was how they labeled the video uploaded to YouTube on
Monday, October 7. In actuality however, it was just a tease that shows the
actors and actress comprising the main cast, as well as them greeting the
newest addition to their ensemble, who gets his POV as the video.
The preview begins with the
camera walking alongside a production crew’s outdoor setup of cameras and other
equipment. The shot then goes to the inside of a studio building, following a
person just walking ahead of the camera. The curious thing is that the shot is
of ankle-level or so to the people in the frame. The reason why is revealed
when the “camera” finds its way to a waiting room where John Cho, Daniella
Pineda, Mustapha Shakir and Alex Hassel greet the newcomer (with Pineda making
cute faces at him). Finally the view turns around to face the observer, a Corgi
who starts drinking from a bowl labeled “Ein.”
Ein, as “Cowboy Bebop” fans know,
is a minor canine character from the series, a Corgi with enhanced intelligence
that was picked up by the bounty hunting crew of the Bebop and joins them in several adventures. The real-life Corgi
selected to play the role of the anime dog (and it would only be one of
several) at least looks to be of the right shade in his fur, and apparently the
cast have no particular allergies similar to how production of the MCU film “Captain
Marvel” was hobbled by star Brie Larson’s cat allergy.
John Cho (J.J. Abram’s “Star Trek”
reboot films) stars as Spike Spiegel alongside Mustapha Shakir’s Jet Black,
Daniella Pineda’s Faye Valentine and Alex Hassel’s Vicious in Netflix’s “Cowboy
Bebop” series directed by Alex Garcia Lopez (Marvel Netflix series) with
original director Shinichiro Watanabe as consultant. As the teaser says, the
film is now in production, with no release date set.
Image
courtesy of TVweb
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