{"id":2500,"date":"2026-03-11T01:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T21:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/a-live-action-samurai-champloo-is-in-the-works\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T01:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T21:55:10","slug":"a-live-action-samurai-champloo-is-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/a-live-action-samurai-champloo-is-in-the-works\/","title":{"rendered":"A live-action Samurai Champloo is in the works"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An illustration of a bang gripping a samurai sword in one hand while the other hand is outstretched.\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Manglobe\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/8f5bd5c3-878c-4890-b4af-9cc3b9756dc8.webp?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Though <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/cowboy-bebop-cant-keep-itself-from-clapping-on-the-1s-a-1848039503\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the live-action <em>Cowboy Bebop<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>was a big disappointment, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/10\/30\/24279398\/shinichiro-watanabe-lazarus-interview-opioid-crisis-climate-change-sci-fi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shinichir\u014d Watanabe<\/a> is ready to give it another go with one of his other iconic pieces of IP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/tv\/news\/tomorrow-studios-adapt-samurai-champloo-1236674804\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Variety<\/em><\/a> reports that Watanabe has given his blessing and agreed to work on a new live-action <em>Samurai Champloo <\/em>adaptation from Tomorrow Studios, the same production house behind Netflix&rsquo;s Cowboy Bebop (which Watanabe wasn&rsquo;t directly involved in) and the streamer&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/9\/1\/23854257\/netflix-one-piece-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surprisingly excellent take on <em>One Piece<\/em><\/a>. The project is in its earliest stages of development and is not attached to a distributor. After <em>Cowboy Bebop<\/em>, this all feels a little iffy, but Tomorrow Studios heads Marty Adelstein an \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/entertainment\/892675\/a-live-action-samurai-champloo-is-in-the-works\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though the live-action Cowboy Bebop was a big disappointment, Shinichir\u014d Watanabe is ready to give it another go with one [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}