Film Music Reporter

Netflix has confirmed today that Yoko Kanno will be scoring Netflix’s upcoming live action adaptation of the anime series Cowboy Bebop. The show is developed by Andre Nemec (Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) & Jeff Pinkner (Alias, Fringe) based on Hajime Yatate’s anime series and stars John Cho, Mustafa Shakir, Daniella Pineda, Alex Hassell and Elena Satine. The sci-fi drama follows a ragtag crew of bounty hunters on the run from their pasts as they chase down the galaxy’s most dangerous criminals. Nemec, Pinkner, Josh Appelbaum & Scott Rosenberg (High Fidelity, Knightfall) are producing the project for Midnight Radio, alongside Marty Adelstein & Becky Clements (Snowpiercer, Hanna) for Tomorrow Studios, Yasuo Miyakawa, Masayuki Ozaki & Shin Sasaki for Sunrise Inc, as well as Tetsu Fujimura and Matthew Weinberg. Kanno has previously scored all episodes of the 90s anime series, as well as 2001’s Cowboy Bebop: The Movie. Cowboy Bebop is set to premiere this fall on Netflix.