The Straw hats many more familiar characters of the One Piece world will be hitting Netflix soon in a One Piece live-action adaptation. Netflix announced on one of its official Twitter accounts NXOnNetflix with an image of Oda-sensei’s comment and announcement.
This came as a surprise to many fans of One Piece and the announcement received divided fan feedback on a Reddit discussion thread. The release date of the upcoming One Piece live-action series was not yet announced. However, we are given an idea of how serious the production will be.
Oda’s announcement
The announcement was made by Oda himself who will be overseeing the whole project. His announcement was also posted on onepiecenetflix with several translations. The announcement reads:
So the first season will be ten episodes long. It is intriguing how Netflix would pull this off given the not so positive history of several live-action remakes of several famous titles including Dragonball Z, Death Note, and Bleach.
Production
Tomorrow Studios is the company behind the project with CEO Marty Adelstein, producing the series. According to reports, the production cost per episode will range from 9-10 million dollars. This is quite big of a budget, but it will help the production be consistent with Oda’s condition to keep the series faithful to the story and the fans who supported the manga series for over twenty years.
This huge budget of the project was later confirmed with Adelstein’s statement in an interview regarding the One Piece live-action series:
The production team will also include Matt Owens who will be writing the screenplay and Steven Maeda who also posted the announcement on his Twitter account with the following statement:
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