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With Satine as Julia and Hassel as Vicious, it seems we’re getting closer and closer to confirmation that this show will be a straight adaptation of the anime, but only time will tell if Netflix plans to expand the timeline of the original series, warranting more than the planned 10 episodes.ĭaredevil director Alex Garcia Lopez will be helming the first two episodes of the series from scripts penned by writer Christopher Yost, who previously wrote “Thor: The Dark World” and “Thor: Ragnarok.” Shinichiro Watanabe, director of the original anime, will serve as a consultant on the project.ĭo you think this will be an adaptation of the main story or will Netflix expand on the plot? Let us know your thoughts down below or on twitter and. Satine rounds out a cast that includes John Cho, Mustafa Shakir, Daniella Pineda and Alex Hassel, who play Spike, Jet Black, Faye Valentine and Vicious, respectively. Satine currently has a recurring role on CBS All Access’ Strange Angel and was previously on shows like The Gifted and Magic City. RELATED – Cowboy Bebop: John Cho Looks Like A Lot Like Spike Spiegel With New Haircut! 2ĭeadline is reporting that Elena Satine has been cast as Julia, “a sultry beauty with a voice to die for, the dream-like object of Spike Spiegel’s (Cho) desire” who struggles to survive in a violent world in the upcoming Netflix adaptation of Cowboy Bebop. That’s all I can tell you.” Faye Valentine & Jet Black, Jupiter Jazz, Pt. Where the Netflix series could lead its story is currently unknown, but if there is anything certain about who Julia is now compared to the character in the anime, it is this: She is more than just someone’s dream girl.“Who is this Julia?” “I don’t know. “īy not only showing Julia’s background story, but also by describing her bow as a sympathetic, empowered and ruthless antagonist, Cowboy bebop ventures into unprecedented narrative territory that the anime never touched on. “I thought we had an amazing opportunity to tell the story of someone who is really locked up, who is finding empowerment, and we look at them and just think like this: Ooh, she’s dangerous, like she’s really dangerous – and I think she’s on the last few frames of season one. “I knew in the beginning that I wanted this to be the birth of a villain,” says Nemec. After shooting Spike and imprisoning Vicious, it’s Julia who wields the most power at the end of season one. First seen as the terrified, albeit willing, wife of Vicious, Satine’s portrayal gradually evolves beyond her original appearance, eventually wresting control of the Syndicate away from her husband and blaming Spike in her own rise to power. In truth, Julia wasn’t a great character, but an idea back in the 1995s Cowboy bebop.

Saying Julia in live action Cowboy bebop feels completely different from the character seen in the original anime is an understatement. And I went from there and built on that and the slow transformation of Julia from someone else’s dream woman to this woman who in the end has a lot of control over her own fate. She’s not exactly the same girl as the one he remembers, so this was kind of a starting point for me to get closer to the character. But then there is the real Julia, whom we see briefly in the anime walking around with a gun, shooting people. “I addressed Julia as two different characters, essentially there was the idea of Julia, which is immortalized by Spike and his memories of Julia. Who is this Helen of Troy? “įor Elena Satine, the challenge and opportunity to portray this development was to distinguish who her character was in relation to other characters and who she was to herself. “It was important to me that she was whole and shaped as a person, not just as a victim under the thumb of Vicious – which is a place I knew we wanted at the beginning of this story – but also, to give her the opportunity to shape her way The spirit of it definitely came from: I want to know more about Julia. “I found it important that the character be the architect of their own journey and not a dramatic tool to tell a story between these two guys. “In the original idea of breaking episode 9, I always thought of it as Juliet’s episode,” says Nemec. But more than just a tale of a passionate feud between two men, the episode is an origin story for Julia, Spike’s former flame, and a character who was never fully explored in the original anime. What Vicious begins, Spike tidies up and Spike’s rendezvous with Julia behind Vicious’ back is the final break. Three years before today’s events of Cowboy bebop, “Blue Crow Waltz” shows what led to the aftermath of Vicious and Fearless – namely a bloody gang war.
