JOHN CHO TO LEAD NETFLIX'S FIREFLYESQUE SPACE WESTERN TV SERIES COWBOY BEBOP WITH ALEX HASSELL, DANIELLA PINEDA!

John Cho will lead the ten part mini series

Some space fantasy for you today (especially those of you who still miss Firefly): John Cho will lead new space Western series COWBOY BEBOP at Netflix together with Mustafa Shakir, Daniella Pineda and Alex Hassell! The genre bending story, a live action adaptation of cult Japanese animated series, will, as Deadline reports, follow a rag-tag crew of bounty hunters on the run from their pasts as they hunt down the solar system’s most dangerous criminals. They’ll even save the world… for the right price.

John Cho will play Spike Spiegel, an impossibly cool “cowboy” (bounty hunter) with a deadly smile, a wry wit, and style to spare who travels the solar system with his ex-cop partner, Jet (Mustafa Shakir), pursuing the future’s most dangerous bounties with a combination of charm and charisma! Pineda will play Faye Valentine, a bold, brash and unpredictable bounty hunter, a thorn in Spike

Alex Hassell and Daniella Pineda will star in the sf series as well

and Jet’s side. Hassell (whom we watched in BBC's Miniaturist) is Vicious, a man who thoroughly enjoys a good kill, the most notorious hitman. He’s also Spike Spiegel’s ex-partner and arch-enemy. Thor's Chris Yost is writing and executive producing!