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Cowboy Bebop (2021)
Netflix has finally dropped the Cowboy Bebop trailer, giving us our first official look at Spike Spiegel (John Cho), Jett Black (Mustafa Shakir), and Faye Valentin (Daniella Pineda) in live action. The Cowboy Bebop trailer comes one week after Netflix debuted “The Lost Sessions,” a teaser full of original scenes shot just for the standalone clip. But tonight’s Cowboy Bebop trailer drop is the real thing, full of fight scenes, physical comedy, noir beats, and Ein the corgi.
Cowboy Bebop (2021) is the long-awaited live action adaptation of the classic anime series of the same name. Cowboy Bebop takes place in a future where the solar system has been colonized, but instead of being a sci-fi utopia, life feels more like the wild west. Bounty hunters known as “Cowboys” zip from planet to planet, moon to moon, base to base in hunt of fugitive quarries. And as John Cho’s Spike Spiegel mentions in the trailer, if the cops and bounty hunters don’t catch you, the crime syndicates will.
The first Cowboy Bebop trailer opens on a somber Spike Spiegel telling Ana (Tamara Tunie) that he’s returned from the “dead” and is bounty hunting with a partner. All this is supposed to be surprising, with Ana asking the man now calling himself Spike if his new partner Jett Black knows what he used to be. That dark opening, hinting at Spike’s bitterly dark and violent past, soon gives way to a supercut of visual sight gags, hyper-stylized action sequences, and a hint that Faye Valentine will start out as a quarry Spike and Jett are after before joining the gang. (As she did in the original anime version of Cowboy Bebop.) The trailer is honestly full of Easter eggs, from hints of the show’s “Real Folk Blues” closing credits to shots that feel ripped from the anime series.
Of course the most exciting part of the Cowboy Bebop aren’t the nods to the anime or Yoko Ono’s iconic soundtrack. It’s seeing that Ein the corgi will get into mischief with the gang.
See you on November 19, Space Cowboy… (That’s the date Cowboy Bebop Season 1 premieres on Netflix.)
