One Piece Live Action TV Series Under Development by Hollywood

[kemcha]

According to reports from Yahoo! Japan (h/t Comicbook.com), One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda has confirmed that his beloved series will be getting a live-action television adaptation by Hollywood in conjunction with its 20th anniversary.

Tomorrow Studios (the studio known for Prison Break) will oversee the project while Marty Adelstein, the executive producer on Prison Break, will be in-charge of the One Piece series.

http://www.slashfilm.com/live-action-one-piece-tv-show/

[JeffTheMovieGuy]

I'm all for it let's see who they cast.

[Talal86]

how would that even work?

[Shingster]

Yeah this is gonna need a ridiculous budget to make it even remotely feasible. I just don't see how it could ever work, or at the very least ever get past its first season because it would need major, major viewing figures just because of how crazy expensive it would be. You've only got to look at Marvel and how they've had to seriously tone down their super-powered shenanigans on their TV properties to see how One Piece just couldn't work in that industry production-wise.

[kemcha]

With television production studios constantly cutting budgets because they don't want to spend the money on special effects, with a series like One Piece, Dragonball Z and other shows like that, the special effects budget is going to be astronomical.

I recall when UPN had a hard time wanting to greenlight the fourth season of Star Trek Enterprise until the producers agreed to slice their budget requests for each episode. During the second season of The Flash, I also remember Kreisberg stating that they had blown through the bulk of their budget on just a few minutes of King Shark, rendered as a CGI character. The scene was awesome but it highlights budgetary problems associated with shows that are heavy on special effects.

[Shingster]

Yeah and on top of that, One Piece has never been a big, big hit over here. obviously in Japan it's freakin' huge, but in the west it never achieved the popularity of Naruto or Bleach or Fullmetal Alchemist etc. Now Fullmetal Alchemist, there's a popular shounen series that would work brilliantly on a Netflix or HBO type network because it requires only a fraction of the CGI that a One Piece/Naruto/Bleach would require, has a grounded European setting, more mature story so more marketable to the Game of Thrones type adault demographic, and is short enough that you could adapt it faithfully in five seasons or less.

But hey, what do we know, right? I suppose if a US production house wants to waste money on a show that would either need to be "grounded" to the point of being an adaptation in name only (ala Preacher) turning off the hardcore fanbase, or a faithful adaptation that would need to amass about 10million and more per episode to justify the exorbitant CGI costs, then they're the professionals I guess!

[robgmun]

Originally Posted by kemcha

During the second season of The Flash, I also remember Kreisberg stating that they had blown through the bulk of their budget on just a few minutes of King Shark, rendered as a CGI character. The scene was awesome but it highlights budgetary problems associated with shows that are heavy on special effects.

Yeah i remember being impressed with the Scene near the end when the Flash was running around King Shark in the water, it looked almost movie quaility.

[Vlad Draculi]

Originally Posted by Shingster

One Piece has never been a big, big hit over here.

That's completely untrue.

Yes, it didn't pick up as quickly as Naruto and Bleach, but those two series dragged on for way too long and overstayed their welcome whereas One Piece has never dropped in quality. One Piece is now selling as much as Batman and Superman comics and the anime is Funimation's second biggest seller.

[Shingster]

Care to back that up with proof of impressive sales figures? I'm an unabashed One Piece fanboy who has been part of the online manga/anime scene for a long, long time now and One Piece manga has never been THAT big in the US and UK. It has never been and never will be as big as Naruto or Bleach or FMA and I would argue that at the very least Attack on Titan, Tokyo Ghoul and possibly One Punch Man and Fairy Tail are more popular than OP now that Naruto/Bleach/Fullmetal Alchemist have ended. Check out the Animetics annual US manga sales lists and you'll find One Piece pretty far down in the rankings for recent years.

As for the anime, it's not doing a tremendous amount better, the OP films sell better than the show. OP is without question one of the best selling shounen shows currently running, but it has never taken the UK/US by storm. It has never entered the mainstream consciousness like Naruto and DragonBall did. That's why I say it's never been a big, big hit (note the two "bigs").

I'd love to see a westernised live action or animated adaptation of One Piece bring mainstream attention to the series, but the only way a Live Action adaptation works is as a behemoth summer blockbuster film series ala Pirates of the Caribbean with a hugely restructured storyline.

[Vlad Draculi]

When I find the article that was posted on the facebook page I'm part of, I will post it for you.

I still don't get what made Naruto so popular though. That series was completely shit after its second arc.

[MOONPHASE]

Doing this after the Anime version was cancelled on Toonami due to poor ratings.

[Shingster]

Originally Posted by MOONPHASE

Doing this after the Anime version was cancelled on Toonami due to poor ratings.

I must admit I drifted away from the anime series myself a couple years back around the conclusion of the War at Marineford. I just grew tired of all the bullshit padding - it's one thing to shoehorn a year's worth of staff-written filler arcs like they did with Naruto were you at least could choose to skip it, but another thing entirely to basically take a 17pg chapter of the manga and then contrive the shit out of it so it fills a full 20min episode - and the action-packed arcs really started to suffer terribly from pure, blatant, time wasting. The entire flow of the canonical "action" was ruined, just flat out ruined and it made me mad as a fan to see this shit and think that for hundreds of thousands of people out there, this is what One Piece is to them now, this badly paced garbage. Urgh, yeah it made me sad to see.

There was a time when anime adaptations were at least 100% faithful to the material they would adapt, I mean they'd catch up with the comics eventually and have to write their own plotlines that inevitably ****ed everything up and gave us shitty unsatisfying endings like in Trigun or the original run of FMA, but at least they stayed true to the manga material that was already published. Nowadays if a show isn't stringing things along ala One Piece they're going back and re-adaptating the material and gutting the story to fit a short season or two ala FMA: Brotherhood and Berserk. Even Death Note, which was by-and-large a decent show, dropped a huge chunk of the manga material in the 2nd half of the story and you really felt that in the plotting and characterisation.

Originally Posted by Vlad Draculi

I still don't get what made Naruto so popular though. That series was completely shit after its second arc.

Are you a long time reader of shounen manga or One Piece in particular? It came out at a time when the artwork of your typical shounen was probably a little more "masculine" in style maybe (to think of a better term) and the series that were best known in the states were a little more on the mature end of shounen and American readers in particular were always quick to say that they hated Oda's art style and felt the series was too silly. I think it always played big in France right from the start and obviously in Asia it was just phenomenally well received, but by & large US and UK were indifferent to it. You know, Oda's art style was pretty eccentric and a little more typically Shoujo with the long foreheads and tall, skinny designs and just the weird size scaling in general with regular humans being 20ft plus, etc. It just seemed to put western fans off, and the fact the series took a few arcs to really get motoring didn't help either (IMO it wasn't until Arlong Park that it started to hit its stride).

Eventually Naruto came out and that was more in the image of what I think a typical American anime/manga fan was expecting, this would have been around the time Samurai X was doing well in the US and a couple years later Harry Potter would break big and Naruto in many ways is basically Harry Potter with ninjas replacing wizards, etc, and the humour and tone was more conventionally shounen action-comedy, so it was just easier for western fans to embrace, and I think Bleach kinda benefited from Naruto's breakthrough success so people were primed to try this new, slightly edgier but still pretty familar, manga series; whereas One Piece of course had already been established and sort of dismissed by that point (although it still remained popular enough to be considered one part of the "Holy Shounen Trinity").

[InuYashaCrusade]

https://deadline.com/2020/01/one-pie...os-1202845657/

Netflix has greenlighted One Piece, a live-action series based on one of the best-selling manga titles of all time.

The 10-episode series comes from Tomorrow Studios and Shueisha. Tomorrow Studios also is behind another live-action Netflix series adaptation of a classic Manga property, the upcoming Cowboy Bebop.

[tcripe]

Im surprised Netflix didn't wait until cowboy beepbop released to see the reaction for that before greenlighting this.

[ps3bd_owner]

A live action version of One Piece? That's probably going to be a mess.

There have been a number or live action movies of Dragon Ball and they're all awful, not one is salvageable let alone a live action version of One Piece.

[Shingster]

How many billions in debt are Netflix again?

Madness, pure madness, but it's gonna be interesting seeing out this will turn out!

[LegacyCosts]

Only way this will work is with hideous cgi or waterworld budgets

[ps3bd_owner]

Originally Posted by LegacyCosts

Only way this will work is with hideous cgi or waterworld budgets

Don't remind me of Netflix's Saint Seiya (produced by TOEI).

[InuYashaCrusade]

Live-Action One Piece Series' Script Tease Reveals Logo, Episode 1's Working Title

Matt Owens, Steven Maeda write teleplay for 1st Netflix episode "Romance Dawn"

Netflix unveiled on Friday a photo of the first episode's script for the Hollywood live-action series adaptation of Eiichiro Oda's One Piece manga, and it reveals the series' logo and tentative first episode title "Romance Dawn." "Romance Dawn" is the title of the first chapter of the One Piece manga, as well as the name of Oda's one-shots that served as early versions of his current ongoing manga. Matt Owens and Steven Maeda are credited for the first episode's teleplay.



https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/new...-title/.176981

[Shingster]

If anime fans are losing their shit over Faye Valentine wearing a much more conservative outfit in the live action Cowboy Bebop adaptation I don't know how the hell the Netflix think they're gonna get away with this!

Shame the photo is so low res, there seems to be something going on with the nose of the jolly roger that you can't make out, some logo within a logo I guess.