Netflix's Cowboy Bebop casts a bunch of supporting characters, still no sign of Radical Edward
We’ve felt rumblings that Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop would involve some changes, like when Netflix cast a character who only appears in a couple of episodes of the original anime but is very important to the “mythology,” implying that it would focus more on adapting the important plot episodes than the comparatively breezy monster-of-the-week ones (so to speak). Now we have even more confirmation of that, with Netflix casting a whole bunch of supporting characters from the anime even though a core member of the Bebop crew—hacker prodigy Radical Edward—still hasn’t been cast, making it seem like she won’t even be in this. Ed’s not a traditionally cool character like main protagonists Spike and Jet, and her mannerisms and personality would be hard to capture in live-action, but that’s the sort of challenge Netflix took on when it decided to make this. Why do it at all if they’re not really going to do it? (Of course, maybe Ed will be a part of the adaptation and we’re complaining about nothing, but this is the internet and we reserve the right to complain as much as we want.)
