Cowboy Bebop Sequel Canceled: The Series Becomes Netflix’s New Big Failure Of The Year After ‘Jupiter’s Legacy’
Netflix has decided to cancel ‘Cowboy Bebop’ when not even a month had passed since the premiere of its first season, as The Hollywood Reporter has revealed . The platform made a great promotional effort to make this live-action adaptation of the acclaimed anime a bombshell of audiences and the public has not reacted as expected.
Cowboy Bebop Sequel Canceled
The truth is that neither the critics nor the public had reacted very positively to ‘Cowboy Bebop‘ also adding only 21 million hours played during its first weekend. A figure that is clearly insufficient. In the following week he added 36 million more, being confirmed then that his future was not at all promising that in total he added less than what was achieved by ‘You Season 3′ during its fourth week…
Nor should we forget that ‘Cowboy Bebop’ was not exactly cheap, something that surely has precipitated Netflix’s decision in a way that is reminiscent of what happened with ‘Jupiter’s Legacy’ this year. In both cases the door was clearly left open for a second season that we will never see.
According to sources close to the aforementioned medium, Netflix compared the audience figures with the budget for Cowboy Bebop and simply concluded that it was not worth continuing with a second season . It is surprising, yes, that the news comes just three weeks after the premiere of the first and only season. It seems that Netflix did not want to waste time and decided to quickly forget about any possibility of continuing Cowboy Bebop. Instead, the company will focus on content that is guaranteed to be successful.
To be honest, the avalanche of negative opinions about Cowboy Bebop already made us think that the series did not expect a good future. Creating an adaptation with real actors is never easy, even less when it is based on an acclaimed anime. In fact, when it was officially announced, fans did not agree that Hollywood would take over the project. However, this is the kind of risk that the service is willing to take on a constant basis. Surely it will not be his last attempt…
Cowboy Bebop was led by showrunner André Nemec while the script was the responsibility of Christopher Yost. The cast consisted of John Cho (Spike Spiegel), Mustafa Shakir (Jet Black), Daniella Pineda (Faye Valentine), Alex Hassell (Vicious) and Elena Satine (Julia). Nemec himself had commented that his goal with Cowboy Bebop was to expand the canon of anime, something that he will no longer be able to carry out. For better or worse…
