Jet holds tight to his honor and optimism, acting as a father figure to his misfit crew, always seeing the best in his partner, Spike… until it’s too late. ▼ Shakir’s most recent 2-D-to-3-D acting experience is playing Bushmaster in the second season of Luke Cage Meanwhile, playing the role of Spike’s partner in for-profit-crime fighting, Jet Black, is Mustafa Shakir.
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The live-action series could also be taking the stance that a former mafia enforcer like Spike definitely wouldn’t be living under his real name after trying to cut ties to a violent criminal organization. Some may find it jarring to see Spike, a character with a German surname and wavy/curly hair, portrayed by a Korean actor, but the Cowboy Bebop anime repeatedly shows it’s setting to be one heavily influenced by Chinese culture, language, and cuisine, so perhaps Netflix feels that’s also indicative of a galaxy in which a large portion of the population would also have mixed Asian ancestry.
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▼ Spike, as he appears on the anime’s official website
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Haunted by visions of the woman he loved and lost, Julia, Spike’s criminal past slowly catches up to him - putting him and the Bebop crew in the crosshairs of the solar system’s most lethal criminal organization, the Syndicate. ▼ Cho’s sci-fi/anime credentials include playing Hikaru Sulu in the Star Trek reboot movies and voicing characters in the English dubs of Studio Ghibli’s The Tale of Princess Kaguya and Mamoru Hosoda’s Mirai. Starring as interplanetary bounty hunter/drifter Spike Spiegel is Korean-American actor John Cho.
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After years of false-starts and rumors regarding a possible Hollywood movie adaptation, just the fact that a live-action Bebop has been officially greenlit is a big enough deal in itself, and now Netflix has revealed its principal cast. Leaving out the littlest bounty hunter is a big omission, and could signify a difference in tone between the anime and live-action version.īack in the fall, Netflix announced that it will be producing a Cowboy Bebop drama, finally bringing to fruition a live-action, Western-made version of the landmark anime series.