John Cho got injured half way through making season 1, and then Covid.
The budget would have been frakked after shutting down for a year.
In April 2019, Variety reported that Cho had been cast as Spike Spiegel in a live-action version of the Cowboy Bebop series. However, production shut down when Cho suffered a knee injury in October and remained shut down until late September 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The budget would have been frakked after shutting down for a year.