Cowboy Bebop - Live Action Netflix Series (Production Shut Down 7-9 Months Due to John Cho Injury)
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Netflix’s upcoming live-action series Cowboy Bebop is going on a lengthy hiatus following a knee injury sustained by lead John Cho on the set of the show in New Zealand.
Sources describe the injury as a freak accident that happened on the last take of a routine and well-rehearsed scene. It requires surgery, for which Cho has been flown back to Los Angeles, and an extensive rehabilitation. The production shutdown is expected to last between 7 and 9 months. The new filming schedule will be set once Cho’s prognosis is clear.
Cowboy Bebop, a live-action adaptation of the cult Japanese animated series, was a few episodes into production on its 10-episode order when the accident happened. Netflix marked the show’s start of production last week with a behind-the-scene video which featured Cho. (you can watch it below)
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Being relatively early into filming would allow Netflix to recast the role but I hear the streamer is fully committed to Cho in the title role, willing to wait until late spring-early summer next year to resume filming, along with the logistical challenges that presents.
“Our thoughts are with John and he has our complete support as he recuperates from this injury,” a Netflix spokesperson said in a statement to Deadline.
The Space western hails from Tomorrow Studios, Marty Adelstein’s joint venture with ITV Studios, Midnight Radio (Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec, Jeff Pinkner & Scott Rosenberg), writer Chris Yost as well as Sunrise, the studio behind the original series.
Written/executive produced by Yost based on the worldwide phenomenon, Cowboy Bebop is the jazz-inspired, genre-bending story of Spike Spiegel (Cho), an impossibly cool “cowboy” (bounty hunter) with a deadly smile, a wry wit and style to spare, Jet Black (Mustafa Shakir), Faye Valentine (Daniella Pineda) and Radical Ed: a rag-tag crew of bounty hunters on the run from their pasts as they hunt down the solar system’s most dangerous criminals. They’ll even save the world…for the right price.
Nemec, Appelbaum, Pinkner and Rosenberg executive produce via Midnight Radio and serve as showrunners. Marty Adelstein and Becky Clements executive produce for Tomorrow Studios. Yasuo Miyakawa, Masayuki Ozaki, and Shin Sasaki of Sunrise also executive produce alongside Tetsu Fujimura and Matthew Weinberg. Shinichiro Watanabe, director of the original anime, serves as consultant.
Cowboy Bebop is a co-production between Netflix and Tomorrow Studios; with Netflix handling physical production.
Cowboy Bebop, considered one of the best anime series of all time, produced 26 episodes, which aired in Japan from 1998-1999. It has done well internationally, garnering several anime and science fiction awards, and is credited with helping to introduce anime to a new wave of Western viewers. In the U.S., it aired on Adult Swim.
Sources describe the injury as a freak accident that happened on the last take of a routine and well-rehearsed scene. It requires surgery, for which Cho has been flown back to Los Angeles, and an extensive rehabilitation. The production shutdown is expected to last between 7 and 9 months. The new filming schedule will be set once Cho’s prognosis is clear.
Cowboy Bebop, a live-action adaptation of the cult Japanese animated series, was a few episodes into production on its 10-episode order when the accident happened. Netflix marked the show’s start of production last week with a behind-the-scene video which featured Cho. (you can watch it below)
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Being relatively early into filming would allow Netflix to recast the role but I hear the streamer is fully committed to Cho in the title role, willing to wait until late spring-early summer next year to resume filming, along with the logistical challenges that presents.
“Our thoughts are with John and he has our complete support as he recuperates from this injury,” a Netflix spokesperson said in a statement to Deadline.
The Space western hails from Tomorrow Studios, Marty Adelstein’s joint venture with ITV Studios, Midnight Radio (Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec, Jeff Pinkner & Scott Rosenberg), writer Chris Yost as well as Sunrise, the studio behind the original series.
Written/executive produced by Yost based on the worldwide phenomenon, Cowboy Bebop is the jazz-inspired, genre-bending story of Spike Spiegel (Cho), an impossibly cool “cowboy” (bounty hunter) with a deadly smile, a wry wit and style to spare, Jet Black (Mustafa Shakir), Faye Valentine (Daniella Pineda) and Radical Ed: a rag-tag crew of bounty hunters on the run from their pasts as they hunt down the solar system’s most dangerous criminals. They’ll even save the world…for the right price.
Nemec, Appelbaum, Pinkner and Rosenberg executive produce via Midnight Radio and serve as showrunners. Marty Adelstein and Becky Clements executive produce for Tomorrow Studios. Yasuo Miyakawa, Masayuki Ozaki, and Shin Sasaki of Sunrise also executive produce alongside Tetsu Fujimura and Matthew Weinberg. Shinichiro Watanabe, director of the original anime, serves as consultant.
Cowboy Bebop is a co-production between Netflix and Tomorrow Studios; with Netflix handling physical production.
Cowboy Bebop, considered one of the best anime series of all time, produced 26 episodes, which aired in Japan from 1998-1999. It has done well internationally, garnering several anime and science fiction awards, and is credited with helping to introduce anime to a new wave of Western viewers. In the U.S., it aired on Adult Swim.
NOOOOOOO!!!
JUST RECAST THE CHAC!!!
JUST RECAST THE CHAC!!!
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hope for a speedy recovery
got fukked up recreating the broom fight jumpin off the ledge or some shyt
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Didn't know he was 47, should have went with someone younger
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Not excited but I hope Harold recovers
Not excited but I hope Harold recovers
How much money did they spend animating that movie?That animation is still fluid
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this shyt cursed 