For those unaware, “Cowboy Bebop” was a late-1990’s Japanese anime TV series. Set in the late 21st century, it follows a small crew of bounty hunters as they, well, hunt bounties across the Solar System. For a lot of people, the jazz soundtrack had them hooked. For me, it was the interesting world building. Earth was trashed a few decades ago when a “gate” (the large orbital “stargates” that let ships travel FTL from world to world) being tested on the Moon went kerflooey. But society at this point seems to have moved on, with colonies on Mars and Ganymede and such, with a number of vast rotating O’Neill colonies.

Calling it an animated prototype for “Firefly” would not be entirely uncalled-for.

It did suffer from the same WTF-itis that assails the majority of anime, with a lot of silly-weird Just Cuz,but it was nonetheless an overall damned fine series.

And now… live action:

‘Cowboy Bebop’ Cult Anime TV Series Gets U.S. Live-Action Remake By Tomorrow Studios, Midnight Radio & ‘Thor’ Writer

No data on what network or who’s going to star in it. Keanu Reeves was a whole lot of people’s favorite to play the main character of Spike back in the day when fans discussed a hypothetical live action adaptation, but Keanu is a few decades too old by this point. If the series is faithful to the environments of the original it’s going to be *expensive.*