Loved the cast and specially loved that the comments everywhere have been positive.
One Piece Live-Adaptation Drama Announced
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Oh no…
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Wait, did we know the full episode list as well? IMDB has the names of each episode and how many episodes each of the main cast will be in: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11737520/episodes?season=1&ref_=tt_eps_sn_1
Seems like Zoro and Luffy will be in every episode, Nami in 9, Usopp in 8 and Sanji in 7.
The episode titles are:
- Romance Dawn (Shanks and Captain Morgan)
- TBA (being Nami's intro this must be the Buggy arc)
- Captain of 8000 Men (Kuro)
- Cooks of the Sea (Baratie intro)
- A Frog in the Well (Mihawk fight)
- Arms and Sharks (End of Baratie, start of Arlong)
- Tangerine Grove (Nami Flashback)
- Crewmates (Arlong fight)
- End of the Beginning (Lougetown first half)
- The Grand Line (Lougetown second half)
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Anyone can edit IMDB.
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calling it now: "End of the Beginning" ends with Buggy about to behead Luffy.
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LOL on the Chris Pratt cast
I’m eager to see my fav miss Neko Lowbun in the next season! The casting seems awesome, mainly the weak duo, but I can see Zoro and Luffy getting there. Ngl I’m a bit sad that Luffy isn’t indeed Brazilian, but a Latino brother is awesome as well. I’ll take it.
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Everyone looks good to me except Luffy. But I’ll look forward to giving them all a fair shot.
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I'm pleasantly surprised! I have to see how they act on-screen of course, but based on looks I'm satisfied!
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Not big on that Luffy, but the rest seem pretty good.
plz be better than what cowboy bebop got
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Just saw the announcement of the cast members. All pretty solid and new. I have full trust in Oda and that he knows what he's doing.
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Gonna take me a minute to warm up to the guy playing Sanji but everyone else sold me instantly especially Jacob he totally embodied Usopp's vibe. This is going to be good I can feel it
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Jacob is going to be an amazing Usopp. I already like him as the character for the way he was screaming, "The pirates are coming!".
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I guess the thing I'm most curious about is if Sanji's actor is going to use his own British accent or if they will make him use an American one. I guess it doesn't really matter much, could be that in this new English Netflix based One Piece World people from North Blue speak with a British accent. Of course, Sanji's techniques are French and Germa seems German but the original is Japanese so I guess anything goes.
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I feel like any accent can work for Sanji.
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Brooklyn accent or just cancel the whole thing
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This is a weird thing to ask for, but I hope that characters don't yell out their attacks. For me, it would be wrong kind of goofy in a live show.
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No clue who the sanji actor is, but he gives 90s pop star vibes For some reason. So everyone guessed the nami and Zoro actors.
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Luffy's actor seems great. He really gives off that Luffy energy in the video. Usopp's actor, too. Sanji's looks so much like Eminem. Should've been Enel. Disappointed, they didn't get Steve Buscemi for Sanji
Nami's actress made an Instagram post in August praising a hair stylist for her new hair, and it seems to be the hair she'll have in the show, since it's very faithful to Nami's hair in the manga:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CEe0jmWpsyu/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet
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Casting looks good, especially Nami.:wub: I had heard rumours of Emily Rudd for Nami a while back, and even then thought she looked the part, so it was a great choice. As long as they capture the personalities of who they're playing, we could be in for something really good.
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Nami is best, usopp is good, not sure about sanji.
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Pretty happy with the casting choices overall. It's obvious they put some thought into it and i like that they're all relatively unknown. Of course they still have to convince in action, i'm really curious how they're going to portray Luffy.
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Not a bad start, but I still won't get my hopes up.
Oda seems very focused on this adaptation, but OP is a hard shell to crack… -
Well we're gonna see how the Cowboy Bebop adaptation turned out in a few days. I think good or ill that should set our expectation bar, moreso than past anime to live action adaptations.
Personally I'm optimistic, because Alita was fantastic Bebop looks good to me, and because all the best parts of OP will transfer to live action wonderfully. The more insane character designs and the comedy won't transfer over so much… but if you can do a different kind of more subtle humor to fill those gaps that's okay. Losing Sanji nosebleeds would be a bonus. The drama, the characterization, the backstories, the worldbuilding, the setting, the action, that can all transfer to live action wonderfully. And honestly a more condensed faster pace is NOT a bad thing.
I am a little thrown by the cast mostly being in their mid 20's, but given that they obviously hope for this to be a 7 or 8 year project, that's maybe for the best.. and better than starting with teenagers who will very noticeably age over the course.
Emily Rudd is apparently a long time OP and Nami fan, so that's a plus.
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Judging the interactions on those tweets I think Zoro and Usopp are already working -
Idunno, the distinct aesthetic and oftentimes gonzo attitude is a huge part of OPs appeal to me. The writing and drama are obviously key, but I don't know I would have ever picked up OP if it didn't have the more expressive "not-like-other-anime" look and tone. Like, Namis past is excellently written, but I don't know I'd be as invested if Arlong was just some big guy with gills and thats it. Playing up the outsize aspects - the cartoonish evilness of the villains, the scale of the obstacles, the rampant zany escalations- serve to enhance the dramatic beats. Like the whole sequence of Choppers farewell to Drum involving being chased by a weapons-throwing ancient witchdoctor as they ride a sleigh down a ropeway while looking like santa before a conical mountain is made to look like a cherry blossom as all the islands inhabitants, including giant bear-like rabbits look on in awe, and thats all ingredients to make the moment sing. You can do a more stripped down realistic version of that, but that just sounds like such an inferior experience to me. Who knows, maybe the series will crank up well writen introspection adn character drama in stead, but in terms of setpieces and the execution thereof I just can't see it being able to compete with Odas unencumbered ideas on the page.
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That's sort of what I keep coming back to. This show is supposed to be hella expensive, the series is already a worldwide phenomenon, and the themes that One Piece plays with are more important than ever. Plus it can rival Game of Thrones in scale and severity. If they wanted to make a killer show out of One Piece that could become a cultural crossover hit like Game of Thrones was (and failed to live up to), it's all there.
But there's just that other thing about One Piece that makes it that much more special that I don't think you can capture in live-action. That absurdity. The main character is already a walking CGI budget, and the deuterogonist fights with mouth swords. One Piece has so much visual language in it that I don't think you can translate over to live action without it being goofy. Sure, you can argue that comic books have been doing it for years. But the physique of a typical superhero isn't much different than that of an action hero. The visual language of a Marvel movie is still a muscley dude swinging something, shooting something, punching something, or expelling some kind of energy. One Piece is just that much further removed.
But then again, Guardians of the Galaxy comes close. But that's a movie/comic about aliens. Over the top character designs is part of that genre's language. A seafaring pirate show with super powers? Is that too much of a hard sell?
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But then again, Guardians of the Galaxy comes close. But that's a movie/comic about aliens. Over the top character designs is part of that genre's language. A seafaring pirate show with super powers? Is that too much of a hard sell?
Pirates of the Carribean already did the groundwork of prepping people for a weird pirate based series with crazy and impossible stuff in it.
People don't know they want a weird new thing until they see it.
You use GotG as an example… even hardcore Marvel fans were balking at Marvel running with that one over literally anything else... until we started seeing the trailers and how they were going to do it.
No one knew they wanted Game of Thrones either until it happened and became the biggest thing ever, even though the novels had been out for nearly 15 years by that point. No one believed in Lord of the Rings for decades. And Star Wars came literally out of nowhere based on no existing property at all.
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Is One Piece really a worldwide phenomenon?
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Is One Piece really a worldwide phenomenon?
I wouldn’t say so. I would say it’s a bit above Saint Seiya which is the soccer of anime (popular everywhere else, unknown in USA).
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@All:
I wouldn’t say so. I would say it’s a bit above Saint Seiya which is the soccer of anime (popular everywhere else, unknown in USA).
You're mistaking Saint Seiya for Captain Tsubasa.
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You're mistaking Saint Seiya for Captain Tsubasa.
lol Captain Tsubasa is literally a soccer anime. It's THE soccer anime, even.
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Sanji does sort of have a live-action basis for his visual appearance, which is Mr. Pink from Reservoir Dogs:
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recently post from Inaki Godoy
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and. Jacob's tweet also hilarious
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Any Spanish speaker here knows the correct way to pronounce "Godoy"?
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GOH-DO-EE. I dont know if that's correct because I have never had to explain it to foreigners.
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GOH-DO-EE. I dont know if that's correct because I have never had to explain it to foreigners.
Thanks. So I got it right, but had to ask just in case. Inaki said his name kinda fast in the introduction video so I didn't really catch it.
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I guess some will have trouble pronouncing the ñ in Iñaki
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Isn't ña like Japanese "nya" (meow)? If it is, then I have no problem with pronouncing it.
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@All:
Isn't ña like Japanese "nya" (meow)? If it is, then I have no problem with pronouncing it.
Not exactly.
It's more like "nha" than "nya".
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I can't get over Sanji being played by a guy that looks like Dollar Store Eminem.
For one, the guy should've been cast as Enel.
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So If we know the cast when can we expect season 1 to drop? I guess they need some good months to film it so summer 2022 or more like end of 2022?
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Now I want to see the casting for the East Blue villains.
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@Cyan:
I can't get over Sanji being played by a guy that looks like Dollar Store Eminem.
For one, the guy should've been cast as Enel.
If One Piece is successful enough to get to Enel, maybe they can just straight up get Eminem to play him.
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@uniaka:
So If we know the cast when can we expect season 1 to drop? I guess they need some good months to film it so summer 2022 or more like end of 2022?
Not just time for filming, we also have to take the post-production time into account, because this series will be CGI heavy and they'll need time to create a great CGI for scene after scene.
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I’m really curious if they will have Zoro carry a sword in his mounth.. :ninja:
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@uniaka:
So If we know the cast when can we expect season 1 to drop? I guess they need some good months to film it so summer 2022 or more like end of 2022?
Late 2022 or Early 2023, if things go well with COVID and there are no halts on filming. Remember, we're still in a pandemic.
For comparison, Cowboy Bebop, which is premiering this month, wrapped up filming back in March after postponing production for 8 months due to John Cho being injured on set. That was before COVID.
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Such a wasted opportunity to literally cast Steve Buscemi for Sanji. I mean this is probably the typical low-budget'ish Netflix production to pad the library, but just imagine how cool it would have been to
1. announce him among all those young actors…
2. ...and once enough internet buzz is created, follow it up with this new fancy de-aging tech from The Irishman
People usually raise an eyebrow when they hear who Sanji is based off, but young Buscemi is 100% Sanji.
The guys who'll play Zoro & Sanji aren't doing it for me at all, unless Zoro's finds a way out of his K-poppish pretty boy impression. Sanji's is… eh. I agree, should have been Enel.
The others though? Perfection. Especially Usopp's. If that guy can act and stays away from drugs I would expect a lot from him in the future. He really has an interesting face & vibe, so fitting for the role. I just hope they won't ruin it with a ridiculous fake nose.
Overall I'm still not expecting much, because other factors are obviously just if not more important, but they earned a chance with this cast.
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I can't vouch for sanji at all, (He'll look better in a wig presumably) but Zoro has bonafides.
He's the white haired one.He would make a great stunt-double, I guess. Like, I know it adds street cred if an actor can actually back up a role with such soft skills, but personally I only care about the result.
Maybe the makeup artists can salvage it to some degree, but my impression right now is that he's too young and his face too handsome/soft for the role.
Man, it would be so great if all those fanmade live action casts would come to life in this series (with de-aging tech). Imagine Uma Thurman as Robin and Travolta as Crocodile. I think my head would explode.
I mean it's not entirely impossible! I think Jamie Lee Curtis already wants to play Kureha!
