The anime inspired Cowboy Bebop: The Movie in 2001.
The original anime series follows the motley crew of the spaceship Bebop as it travels throughout the solar system in search of the next job.
Andre Nemec, one of the showrunners for Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Sunrise’s Cowboy Bebop anime, stated in an interview with entertainment magazine Entertainment Weekly on Tuesday that the live-action adaptation will be an “expansion to the canon” of the anime, adding original stories.
The series is a co-production between Netflix and Tomorrow Studios, with Netflix handling physical production.