The Cowboy Bebop adaptation is not being renewed by Netflix.
There will be no second season of Cowboy Bebop. US platform Netflix has decided not to renew the live-action adaptation of the animated Watanabe in the series for a second season. The cancellation comes less than a month after the launch of the first season, with cast members John Cho (Spike Spiegel), Mustafa Shakir (Jet Black), Daniella Pineda (Faye Valentine), Elena Satine (Julia) and Alex Hassell (Vicious)).
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Cowboy Bebop was produced by Andre Nemec (in addition to showrunner), Jeff Pinkner, Josh Appelbaum and Scott Rosenberg of Midnight Radio, Marty Adelstein and Becky Clements of Tomorrow Studios, Makoto Asanuma, Shin Sasaki and Masayuki Ozaki of Sunrise, Tim Codington, Tetsu Fujimura, Michael Katleman, Matthew Weinberg and Christopher Yost.
The space western was poorly received by the press and fans
The ten-episode thriller scored 46% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. Since its debut on Netflix, it has totaled almost 74 million hours watched worldwide – so it enjoyed a significant sample from the start – but in the week of Nov. 29 to Dec. 5, 2021, it dropped 59%. Due to the high cost of production. Cowboy Bebop, which was filmed in New Zealand, the audience it had to cross to get the update was higher than for other projects.
To date, this is the latest attempt to reinvent Japanese animation as a series that has failed to grab viewers’ attention after titles such as Dragon Ball Evolution (2009), Ghost in the Shell (2017) and the Death Note movie from Netflix in 2017. The biggest success in this arena. maybe it’s Alita: Battle Angel 2019 (over $400 million in revenue, including $50 million in US home video sales).