Bounty hunter Spike Spiegel is back on the hunt in Cowboy Bebop trailer - Ars Technica

The countdown continues for the premiere next month of Cowboy Bebop, the Netflix live action adaptation of the popular anime series.

 As we've reported previously, the original anime series premiered in 1998.

It's a space western about a group of bounty hunters on a spaceship called the Bebop.

André Nemec is the showrunner for the Netflix series, having previously worked as a writer and producer on Alias, as well as the 2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie.

The director of the original anime series, Shinichirō Watanabe, is a consultant for the new show.

Mustafa Shakir (Luke Cage) plays Jet Black, captain of the Bebop, and Spike's ex-cop bounty hunter partner who has a cybernetic arm.

Netflix dropped the opening credits for its live-action series last month, which paid homage to the original anime opening credits (check out this side-by-side comparison), set to the original theme music.

That was fun and all, but then the streamer released a short skit that was also set to "Tank!"—despite the fact that Kanno had joined the project to create a brand new score for the live-action series.

The new Bebop has yet to really back up its creatives desire to have iterated on what made the original anime so beloved in the first place, and couching itself in the familiarity of its most iconic piece of music over and over—especially when returning to the well as many times as it has so far—begins to feel more and more like it’s trying to make up for something.

Will Netflix succeed in putting its own stamp on this beloved series.