Live-action cowboy bebop production will be suspended for some time

Netflix has put the production of its live-action adaptation of Sunrise's Cowboy Bebop anime on hold after lead actor John Cho injured his knee on the New Zealand set.

Deadline reports that the accident occurred during the last take of a "routine and well-rehearsed scene" and that Cho has returned to Los Angeles for surgery and rehabilitation. Deadline adds that Netflix has decided to keep Cho rather than recast and will wait until late spring or early summer to resume production so Cho can rehabilitate.

Netflix released a "Behind the Scenes" video on October 7 to mark the start of production:



Netflix describes the series:

Based on the worldwide phenomenon from Sunrise Inc., Cowboy Bebop is the jazz-inspired, genre-bending story of Spike Spiegel, Jet Black, Faye Valentine, and Radical Ed: 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.

The series stars Cho as Spike, Mustafa Shakir as Jet, Daniella Pineda as Faye, Alex Hassell as Vicious, and Elena Satine as Julia.