Live Action One Piece Film in Development - FAKE

Kaido King of the Beasts

UPDATE: Toei and Shueisha have officially confirmed this as fake, so don't panic…yet. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-06-16/live-action-one-piece-film-plans-announced-by-chinese-company/.103295

Chinese company Sanghai Minghuan bought the rights to make a live-action One Piece film for $15 million. Masataka Kubota has been cast as Luffy and Xie Leilei has been cast as Purin. Yes, Purin. If she's later revealed to be an antagonist and ends up in this movie as a protagonist I will laugh so hard.

Well, if this does end up panning out, let's hope it doesn't have the same effects as Dragonball Evolution and the 4Kids dub.

Siranime

Nooooooo!It's not even Japanese!Why should it be Chinese?

DIO

If Oda becomces a Head Supervisor for this Movie, then they may not slip up badly

RickM.

I really don't want this to happen…

Femme

This has disaster written all over it.

perroloco

I know this was reported on animenewsnetwork, so it should be true.. But it really looks fake..
I mean, Pudin?

LegendarySSJ4

Purin? Am I reading this correctly? She's barely lasted for a month….
The only anime live adaptation series that I liked were the Lone Wolf and Cub films/tv series, Akagi miniseries and Rurouni Kenshin. (I have no hopes for the 2018 Battle Angel Alita movie).

Zach Logan

I was (am?) super skeptical as well, but it's on a variety of legitimate news sources. This seems like a disaster waiting to happen. At best, this would likely be like the Attack on Titan live-action movies. At worst…

sandman

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KageKageKing

RickM.

@KageKageKing:

LOL that was exactly my reaction

dropper

So many characters of NO.

Tyrano

Is it money you want? I'll pay to not see this happen.

BigLuffy559

The fandom is overblowing this. We were never going to get a good live action adaptation no matter the budget, studio or director for multiple reasons, so may as well be happy that Oda made some easy cash. This movie being bad will have no negative effect on the franchise.

The D.

I just had a dream about a live action one piece movie last night. Or was it a nightmare?:ninja:

MugiwaraPirate

Is that supposed a joke or what?

How the hell do you cast a character in the series that just got introduced, instead of casting the main characters first

MasterKingJC

I find it hard to believe that Oda would let them buy the license to live-action One Piece movies under normal circumstances.
They must have coaxed him into making the deal.

TheGreatCaptainUsopp

Greg has said on Twitter that it could be a hoax because the company doesn't seem real but I've done some research and that coupled with the fact that it was posted by Business Wire makes me think that this legit but they've only gotten the rights, casted two characters and are in the early stages of developing it so it seems real in terms of the rights acquisition but it may not end up actually becoming a thing….hopefully.

EDIT: Nevermind, he's said on Twitter that he's spoken with "close to the top" sources and apparently they laughed at it basically saying that it's a hoax. False alarm guys, everyone can go home now.

Greg

Nooooooo!It's not even Japanese!Why should it be Chinese?

Stirring up precisely this sentiment on the home turf is typically the goal of such rumors.

Kaido King of the Beasts

If I get actual evidence that's more than just hearsay, I'll be extremely happy to admit fault for making a sky is falling thread and call it a day.

Mr. Luffy

Way too early to call. Having a very recently introduced character in a lead role is sort of a smart move in a way because this is a very early announcement in that the film can come out when the character is still in the series.

Also it gives some indication that it is at least trying to adapt the manga rather than an extremely loose adaptation that has Luffy and Purin in it in a completely different setting

Lastly, I suspect this film is going to be bid to some other film production company, given that the investment firm that announced this doesn't appear to have much of a filmmaking background. Rather the goal of SMI is likely to purchase the L-A film rights to a hot property like this and sell it to the highest bidder. How they managed to snag this property is a bit of a mystery, but I seriously doubt they intend to produce this in-house and are probably intending to shop around for interested parties.

There's a good chance this never gets made.

TheGreatCaptainUsopp

I'm just going to trust Greg on this one seeing as he has connections with companies and people involved in the franchise that he works for.

Mr. Luffy

@TheGreatCaptainUsopp:

EDIT: Nevermind, he's said on Twitter that he's spoken with "close to the top" sources and apparently they laughed at it basically saying that it's a hoax. False alarm guys, everyone can go home now.

Oh well, there we go. The lack of an available history on Shanghai Minghuan Investment seemed quite a bit of a red flag though it was possible it was formed solely for this acquisition. Apparently not, guess it was tabloid news all along.

TheGreatCaptainUsopp

Yup, here's OPP's update to their article

UPDATE: Individuals close to the One Piece franchise in Japan have spoken to us and our contacts and have outright denied the claims of a live-action One Piece movie as stated in Business Wire and Yahoo News’s press release. As of now, no such movie is under production, according to the sources close to Shueisha and Toei. Why did Business Wire publish a press release? That we don’t know. We’ll let you know if there is any further update. Our humble apologies for all the confusion it may have caused.

Tyrano

Back to the cupboard, pitchfork!

Mr. Reloaded

Oh lordy this is gonna be fun, but man Dragon Ball Evolution really set the standards low.

sandman

Thank you for the info, Greg!

I've just made a phone call to Shueisha and asked them about this news. As expected, they clearly denied the legitimacy of the news.

RickM.

@sandman:

Thank you for the info, Greg!

I've just made a phone call to Shueisha and asked them about this news. As expected, they clearly denied the legitimacy of the news.

Thank God… I wasn't really trusting this anyway, like Charlotte Pudding? What? We don't even know much about her yet.

goty

@Greg:

Stirring up precisely this sentiment on the home turf is typically the goal of such rumors.

I thought the main goal was trying to promote that Chinese idol. I mean, who is she? At least it got people talking about her..

Hanz

@Greg:

Stirring up precisely this sentiment on the home turf is typically the goal of such rumors.

why? do they just want to anger the japanese fans?

SquallL

Shueisha told ANN on Friday that a press release posted on Business Wire on Thursday, stating that Chinese company Shanghai Minghuan Investment plans to create a live-action film based on Eiichiro Oda's One Piece manga, is false.

Kylor

Ugh, what? REALLY? It's not gonna happen? This is horrible news. Absolute garbage.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I knew this movie was going to be bad. But that's why I was so excited, because it wasn't going to be merely bad, it could have been a beautiful, glorious disaster. I'm talking pure, The Room level gold. And now, just when me and my friend thought that the perfect Bad Movie Night movie was just on the horizon… our dreams are shattered like glass. This day, of all days, has turned out to be utter disaster.

joekido the Second

Good joke this "news" was, now we can't just trust Business Wire 100% anymore. However it's not that I read anything from there anyway. However I do wish for a good live action movie someday

Don Quichotte De Flamingo

OP will sooner or later get it´s black sheep implementation, so dodging one bullet will just delay our suffering

Hanz

i hope it comes from japan atleast. not only because hollywood doesn't exactly have the best record of manga adaptions, but also because one piece is just way too silly for a live action movie from hollywood.

Cutty Fram

I don't see what “silliness“ you imply that could not be done by hollywood. But nevertheless, it's not happening, so who cares.

joekido the Second

@Hanz:

i hope it comes from japan atleast. not only because hollywood doesn't exactly have the best record of manga adaptions, but also because one piece is just way too silly for a live action movie from hollywood.

Really? I have seen the silliest movies in live-action out there and some where a success

Hanz

seems like you guys never watched dragon ball evolution, the script writer didn't even bother with being faithful to the manga and just turned it into a teen romance drama lol.
and dragon ball isn't even half as silly as one piece. a kid who can stretch his limps? a half man half robot in a speedo? a woman who can grow her limps anywhere?
just imagine the CGI on all of that and tell me if an american audience is gonna go watch it.

Cutty Fram

Still don't see why you have to be Japanese to be faithful to the source material.

joekido the Second

Even Japan would make bad CGI movies so it really does not matter who handles the series unless it's done right. By your logic, America can't make a movie about Germany because it's not handled by Germans, despite some Germans working on the films. America can make a good One Piece films that manages to be close to it's source material. Japan however can make bad One Piece films anyway.

Hanz

let me articulate on my point…
if japan ends up making this movie, they'd go all out with it and make it as over the top as possible. they won't try to tone it down or change anything in it because their movies can get very silly and they're mostly okay with it (iirc they hate criticizing things over there).

unlike how the situation would turn out if it was made in america, they're gonna try to tone it down because that stuff doesn't really attract people to see the movie, and they'll probably introduce some troopes to make the protagonists more relatable to the average movie goer, because they're kinda flat.

atleast if japan makes it, it'd still be a bad movie but one far more enjoyable because they'll embrace the silliness and go for a mindless action adventure and not try to dabble in the characters too much.

Cutty Fram

16 chars of ok…