Netflix It has earned quite a reputation for the withering manner in which it cancels series, despite the fact that many of them have a loyal regiment of fans. Few cancellations from the platform have been as sharp as that of the live-action adaptation of ‘Cowboy Bebop’, which went to waste a few weeks after its premiere.
Part of the creative team of the series already spoke at the time of how the news had made them feel, but until now John Cho He had not commented on the matter.
No return to Bebop
After years of preparation and some very promising teasers, the remake of ‘Cowboy Bebop’ for Netflix premiered on November 19 last year. Even before its premiere, it had hacks and negative reviews left and right, but managed to accumulate more than 74 million hours of views during its first week on the platform.
From there, the views plummeted and it did not seem that things were going to pick up, so a few weeks later from Netflix it was confirmed that there would not be a second season. John Cho led the cast of the series as Spike Spiegeland the actor has confessed that the news of the cancellation was quite a blow.
“It was very shocking, it hit me like a shot. I was very excited about the response it had [la serie]. I wish I could have talked to everyone and given them a hug,” Cho said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “It still kind of fascinates me how you can connect with so many people through your work, but I’m not going to complain. I’m going to cherish it and treasure it, I just really appreciate that no one cares. It is fascinating.
The ‘Cowboy Bebop’ live-action series was a slow cooker project within Netflix. Precisely having Cho in the series was one of the strong points of the production, to such an extent that the production waited for him for months after suffering an injury on set.
“I put a lot into it. I was injured shooting the show, and had to take a year off for surgery to focus on rehab, and I came back and finished the show.” the actor continued, “It was a giant mountain to climb healing from that injury. I was feeling really good. And we also shot the show in New Zealand, so my family moved there, it was such a big event in my life and suddenly it’s over.”
Despite the fact that Netflix’s ‘Cowboy Bebop’ received sticks everywhere, for its differences with the original anime, although in general John Cho’s Spike was among the least criticized. Even so, the series managed to find a small fandom that came to sign a petition with more than one hundred thousand signatures for Netflix to reconsider the cancellation, although it seems that the requests of the fans have not finished curdling for now.