One Piece Live Action TV Series Under Development by Hollywood

[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!