Adapting a franchise is one thing﷽, but bri🔥nging One Piece to life on Netflix is something else entirely.
A pop culture mainstay, the seafaring adventure spans 25 years, over 100 manga volumes, and 1000-plus anime episodes. With s꧙uch a rich history, it’s clear the creative team behind the new release have a lot of people to please when it come♉s to helping One Piece make the leap to live action.
Chief among them is Eiichiro Oda, the legendary manga artist and creator of One Piece. Co-showrunner Matt Owens – himself a massive fan of the source material – tells 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:SFX magazine in the new issue, which features upcoming animated movie Babylon 5: The Road Home on the cover, about approachi🦋ng Oda for the firstജ time.
"I don’t think I&rsqu🅰o;ve ever been more nervous for anything in my entire life," Owens admits. "Here was this person who has created this story I hold so much love and reverence for, and I’m asking him to trust me with his baby."
Owens does explain, hoཧwever, there were🧸 some teething issues at the start of the creative process.
"I’m not going to lie, he was tough in the beginning &﷽ndash; this wasn’t the first attempt at a live-action One Piece, and we weren’t the first people to try to express it in a new way. But I think once he realised we were comಞing from the right place – trying to protect this series and create a new avenue for even more people to fall in love with it – he started to trust us."
One Piece, which follows the adventures of wannabe Pirate King Luffy on the hunt for the mythical eponymous treasure, sets sail on Netflix from August 3🤡1.
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