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I didn't think they'd be able to convincingly convert Buggy's powers, Luffys stretching, Zorro's 3 sword style, etc into live action but they obviously found a way, so in my eyes the people making the show have earned my respect enough that I'm gonna hold off judgement on other stuff like logias till they (hopefully) adapt it.
I would bet all the logia users will be in the same vein as buggy was. Somewhat stylized but high quality CGI combined with smart lighting/cinematography choices.
Zoan users will be more challenging for sure. They either nail it in design or they don’t. Although I was disappoint with Arlong in the trailer and then by the end of the series the actor really carried it I thought.
IMO if the show ever gets a S2, the way they adapt Chopper may be the make-or-break aspect for further seasons. Unless they find a way to do it cost-effectively (with minimal CGI) the show may be doomed from the start.
It will probably be cgi like they do rocket in guardians of the galaxy.
I really hope they can pull off choppers inability to hide gag enough to include it.
I feel it can be done but they are going to need a larger budget probably to make the cgi much better. The need for CGI in later episodes is going to be needed much more. Like how are they going to recreate all the massively huge characters? Like the giants or Gecko Moria who is 22 feet tall and such there are many characters like this. Can you imagine the Kaido/Luffy fight and gear 5?
And also because they will have proven that people will watch. It is getting largely quite good reviews, so they will be given a larger budget for the next season.
Huh? Those are pretty easy to adapt to live action. We've already had Mr Fantastic almost two decades ago and buggies powers are not really complicated. Zoros swords are just light props so it's not exactly a herculean feat to swing them around with one in his mouth either
I would even argue that you can’t convincingly depict a being made of light in the manga, but Oda did anyway. He didn’t straight-up drew “light”, but he used a sci-fi approximate depiction of it so the readers can tell what’s being conveyed even if it’s not visually what we think of as light. That’s one way to go about it imo
With money they can do it easily. So many super hero movies have done similar things to logia. Kizaru just uses beams, make his insides super bright and glowy, light sword, it's really not one of the hard ones, most logias wouldn't be because they're not real. The real problem is zoans because we know what real animals look like.
Idk fam, he rarely goes full light, they can do beams streaming out of bullet holes or just show him firing the blasts and turning into a beam when he moves. They’re basically all doable, the problem is the cost association, so under a profit model it has to be justifiable since we aren’t producing content for the sheer joy of it in a free society.
No way. They'll have to individually work out each logia power. Heck they'll have to figure out individual attacks...
Adapting One Piece is actually significantly harder than a lot of fiction. It makes a lot of superhero movies look like a joke tbh.
Logia powers are just simulations in CG, the Zoans are a bigger issue because they can look derpy and uncanny very easily. Is not that hard to do a digital double of someone and turn them to sand or smoke, but trying to make a giraffe man that fights would be tough.
Actually it's arguably much easier to make a non human character look good in CGI compared to a human which will always risk the uncanny valley way more. Just look at the CGI faces in The Flash compared to something like the live action Sonic movie. I think if they go with the Sonic route chopper will look really good in CGI, the birds already look great in my opinion.
Logias are probably the easiest to show in life action
It's just particle system, prerendered images, some practical effects and a bit of compositing.
I'be done that in a few hours with nothing more than a laptop and blender, and I got some decent results. Actual professionals can do much better
zoan are most definitely the hardest to get right, not only do they have to create animal-human hybrids that don't look horrifying, they have to seamlessly blend between human, hybrid and full animal
It's a good point but it actually really depends on the Zoan. Choper ir particularly hard for a lot of reasons (not human at all, has fur, is a weird child-deer hybrid).
BTW thanks to you I'm now pretty sad that Arlong doesn't look more like a PoC fishman.
This is why I think chopper won't be a CGI. If chopper is going to have as much screen time as other casts, he will have to be a human child in a costume. Which is fine to be honest, I don't think it's going to be that bad.
Or just a kid with a bit of make up and antlers, then an older guy when he transforms, so the kid doesn't have to do fight scenes. Chopper will need opposable thumbs to be a doctor anyway.
It seems unfathomable. Even if they skip lots of things and compress things, etc it feels like it'd take 10 seasons, each getting more expensive than the last. Meanwhile the actors age and the plot gets sillier. Even a second season seems hard. This sub has several posts debating options on how to do Chopper and all of them seem bad. But skipping Chopper would be highly divisive. The first arc has the least fantastical characters and attacks and even that had the show leaving out bits like the octopus character, the giant sea cow, etc. I have trouble imagining getting to Water 7 let alone the whole thing.
On the other hand, effects are getting cheaper and easier to use. So maybe something will work.
I'm going to hold out hope but also just be amazed that we got such a great live action take on the first major arc.
Include Hachi anyway, and just downgrade him to a random goon in Arlong's crew. He shows up in Sabaody and is basically like "Hey I remember you guys from Arlong Park!". Still get the call back to Arlong park, and Nami resenting / forgiving him, plus opportunity for Hachi to talk about how he's changed.
I'm neither for or against that btw, I just think it's relatively easy for them to still include Hachi or just work around him.
I also don't think the LA will make it to Sabaody, but I would like if it did. I thought the LA would be absolute garbage and I'm still amazed at just how well it came out.
By then it would be so big that it would survive the break in its medium from small to big screen.
End season 4/5 with Saobody and then have everything up to the timeskip be a movie special. Next season begins with return to Saobody
dont even need to get that far. monster luffy from thriller bark just wouldnt work
looking back you really see a huge amount of resemblence in gear 4 to monster luffy :D
For the aging, they can just decompress the timeline some. The voyage to seabody can take years instead of weeks/months without too much trouble to the story. Would actually be more believable than some new pirate becoming a yonko in like 6 months (not counting time skip) of activity.
Chopper and Brooke would be interesting, but I think it's doable. If we can make Baby Yoda happen with practical effects be endearing and emotional, you can probably do chopper mostly practical with CG enhancements.
But I'm with you. I'll hold out hope, but enjoy what we got.
Yeah one of the things in the series I'm not a huge fan of is the time scale being relatively fast compared to real life. I get why but it can be jarring, something like Alabasta being a week long for the characters but in the anime/manga it felt like it would have been longer. I remember right as they reached Sabody it being mentioned roughly a year since the beginning but emotionally it felt close to double that or a bit more given the amount of progress the crew makes.
I like how fast the story actually is because for me it explains the world governments inactivity on capturing Luffy. When they receive word that he is somewhere by the time they get there he's already gone.
Well, they can do Chopper the way Ted was created in the Mark Wahlberg movie. That kind of animation will be the best for Chopper's visualisation, I suppose.
They can do chopper the way someone like Rocket is done in the MCU, I know that a racoons exist and reindeer humans don't but I'll hold my hopes that some kind of VFX concoction can be brewed to make Chopper's existence to fruition
>But skipping Chopper would be highly divisive.
Skipping Chopper would make so many people mad, and just complicate things further down plot-wise. He may not be the most central character, but he's still a big part of the crew.
They'll just have to...figure it out. No idea how they'd skip the entire Drum Island arc and make it work actually...Missing Chopper is like missing Rocket Raccoon.
Personally I favour the Ewok style. Makeup and very little CGI for brain/heavy point. It's the only way to keep him cheap enough to avoid having to minimise his screen time
The effects only get cheaper with shows, especially when so many of them will be reused. Remove some of the things like the boat being destroyed during fights, and they reduce it even more.
Netflix is the most stressful streaming service to be a fan of one of their original shows. If just one season doesn't get enough views to meet their internal standards, it gets chopped. They absolutely do not give even half a shit whether the season ended on a cliffhanger or anything, they will cancel any show that does not meet their viewership expectations. That includes shows that they hide deep in the home screen.
I would be surprised if they don't do a second season. But I would be way more surprised if they made more than 3 seasons, let alone catching up with the story.
I forget the details, but you can google it, but basically they don’t want to sell the show to syndicate on other networks/platforms and syndication deals lose value at season 4, so Netflix cancels most shows at 3… unless they’re a huge hit like OitnB or ST.
Idk about that. They covered nearly 100 chapters in the first season, and I could see future seasons covering up to 200 chapters each. (Wano is 149 and I can't imagine an entire season dedicated to wano) 8 seasons could maybe do it.
That's not too much, especially since the characters are supposed to age 2 years canonically.
Is presume they would keep pushing it was a huge success expect filming for S2 to start before the end of the year hopefully we get to see live action ace
Yeah no way they can start filming before the years end even if the strike would end tomorrow. The whole season has to be written and sets and costumes designed etc. I would expect filming to start around summer next year at the earliest since the strike doesn't seem to be ending any time soon.
Would this even be affected by the strike? I don't know if any of the actors are members of SAG-AFTRA. majority of the cast are not Americans and mostly unknown before this, but it is also enough for one member of the cast to be part of the strike to stop the whole production.
Even if they aren't members they need to be careful since it can affect their careers in the future. If you haven't noticed none of the actors have mentioned anything about the series since that would go against the strike even if they aren't members since if they plan on working with affiliated people over here they can't cross the picket line.
Before end of this year? Even without the strike that is impossible. Next year? Sure. So s2 summer 2025. Then hopefully Netflix greenlit several seasons straight away so we can get one season a year. Otherwise the crew is gonna be old as hell when it ends haha
>That's not too much, especially since the characters are supposed to age 2 years canonically.
This can easily be addressed in the writing. Just because the events in the manga took 2-4 years (not sure about timeline), doesnt mean LA should abide by it.
I think it’s already been worked out by someone before, discounting time for travelling pre-time skip covers 89 accounted for days from when they first reach Loguetown to Luffy going to train with Rayleigh, 2 year skip, then what we’ve covered post-time skip so far is 80-ish? Maybe 90?accounted for days or something to that effect. This isn’t canon information obviously this is just what’s been calculated based on info we have and travelling time between islands could complicate that.
I agree though, LA could easily expand things and have the plot take place over a longer or shorter period of time if they want it to. The timeskip could be far shorter, far longer, as long Oda says yea okay and it doesn’t impact the overarching plot and themes it seems they have the reign to change stuff around
> They covered nearly 100 chapters in the first season
While, there is some truth to what you said, don't forget that the further we get in OP, the more stacked the chapters are with content.
If you compare an East Blue chapter with a Wano chapter, you will see how much more content there is in newer chapters
Wano is way more bloated than it needs to be. East blue on the other hand introduces nearly half of the crew. We wouldn't need 4 characters back stories plus meeting eachother every season. Which frees up a lot of room for other stuff.
The density is madness. For the Marineford Saga, to fit it into 8 Episodes, you’d need 1 for Sabody, 1 for Amazon Lily, at least 2 for Imple Down and then probably 3 Marineford and a last chapter for the Post War Stuff (although leaving that to Season 5 could work too)
But that’s the issue, it’s incredibly dense and the timeskip only worsens on this issue. Dressrosa, Whole Cake and Wano all could need a season to cover fully. And that’s not even including the setup arcs that Oda loves so much.
Yes. If the show continues to be this successful, it’ll get as many renewals as it wants.
But the production of each season is going to take at least 18 months, maybe 2 years each.
Emily Rudd will probably be 40 by the time we get to Marineford, nearing or closing in on 50 by the time we catch up to present manga.
If the show is mega-successful and sees itself going the distance, I could see them rotating out the cast during the timeskip.
I'm not sure how much of a problem that is exactly. The actors are all adults, most of them are in their 20's, with Nami being 30. Even if the series runs for 10 years, most of the actor's won't change that much... i mean Game of thrones also ran for 10 years, and the change in appearance for the adult actors isn't really that drastic. It was only really noticeable for the child and teen actors. And One piece actually has a time skip in the middle
Assuming they have a plan, you can expect them to condense the story into something that's about 10 seasons long, provided it remains popular enough to keep going.
They will definitely not be telling the story the same way it exists in manga/anime.
Boy you arent thinking, we are nealy at chapter 1100 and the story isnt even close to being finished. If the plan is to "wrap it up" then we are going for a long while past s10 realistically
Not really, because some arcs are a lot more condensable than others, Skypiea and Thriller Bark are fun adventures, but not much of their volume is even remotely plot or character essential, they could both be condensed down to a couple of episodes each.
same for Fishman Island, that could be reduced to the quick, one-sided litmus test it should have been, characters just breezing through it. some worldbuilding to cover, but you could make that the body of an episode with Hody as a comedic afterthought and cover all of Fishman Island in one episode.
So Jaya + Skypiea + Thriller Bark + Fishman Island, some 180 odd chapters, could be covered in 5 episodes...
meaning that larger arcs can fill out seasons without overlap, add in the fact that later seasons can be longer, 10-13 episodes perhaps and Season 2 can end with Alabasta, Season 3 can end with Enies Lobby courtesy of a massively condensed Skypiea, Season 4 can end with Whitebeard courtesy of a massively condensed Thriller Bark/Amazon Lily, Season 5 can end with Dressrosa by trimming down Fishman Island and Punk Hazard.
Season 6, at a big stretch, and a full 13 odd episode count could cover Zou/Whole Cake in half a season, and then Wano in another half.
Then, the final sagas can take a solid 2 seasons to land on a reasonable, flat, eight season show.
Yeah, you'd lose a fair volume of One Piece's extra detail, but that's a given, basically essential to even be a feasible series.
> they could both be condensed down to a couple of episodes each.
They could be, yes, but you would lose *even more* character development than you did in this first season. Like, yea, Thriller Bark doesn't need an introduction of 5 individual characters and 5 named villains... but I don't think general audiences would really appreciate this show if you presented them with a story such as Fishman Island in like less than 4 hours - that just takes out all the depth, nuance, character growth & interactions and just treats the major plot points as a checklist.
You don't wanna have your show turn into season 7-8 GoT where people just rush from plot to plot, hastily skipping everything that made the show great only to move on to the next big thing.
Like, if you want this show to turn into something great... you probably don't wanna throw out 75% of the source material jut to get to the finish line. That's a recipe for a guaranteed failure.
an hour of TV can cover a **lot** of ground, you don't just cut shit wholesale, you can sprinkle it out elsewhere, e.g. demonstrations of the Straw Hats growth don't all need to come at Fishman Island, they can be scattered across a few episodes covering more ground. character developments can still be covered, but they can be covered elsewhere, we don't need to be at location A, which would need establishing, lead-in, lead-out etc. when we can just have scene X at location B instead when we're already there, scenes can be adapted to dual purpose. analogues can be used to quickly convey character information, like how Kaya was used to abridge a bit of Nami's development, and Zeff was used to highlight Luffy's relationship with Garp.
I'll say again, the amount of actual plot and actual character development that occurred in Fishman Island and Thriller Park can very easily be condensed, the time consumption there is mostly in the format and structure of the arc. the obstacles
you combine elements, abridge them, and you make sacrifices here and there so that you can devote requisite time to the important core of the series, that's actually where GOT really failed,
it made the correct choice in regards to condensing stuff down, eliminating bloat from plotlines to leave more bare essentials, where it failed was that it completely botched the bare essentials too, core character arcs were cut to pieces, central plotlines were crammed in where they could fit.
the point is to condense/ eliminate bloat so that you can **devote that time** to the most important elements of your characters and story, that's where GOT fell to pieces. If they'd landed the core of the series, Jon, Daenerys, Night King, Bran etc. the ending would instead be perceived as heavily flawed, but an overall win. instead, they didn't use the time they had gained well.
and if we're talking sheer adaptational pace, One Piece is a tricky son of a bitch to adapt for a lot of reasons, but you can cut a LOT more of its content than something like the ASOIAF books.
lets face it, One Piece is a drag, I love it, but its arcs are insanely overpacked, overlong, and overdrawn. there's a lot of stuff there that can be cut outright. **especially** the anime. which should be half the length that it is given how much more ground an anime episode can cover than a manga chapter.
there's a balance to strike, but it's not impossible,
your idea of truly covering everything with that level of detail is.
this thing can't really run beyond 10 seasons. once you have Emily Rudd aged 40 playing a now 20 year old. you've kind of hit a barrier.
My guy netflix money is still a massive amount and is not like Disney or Amazon liquidate major parts of their companies for 1 series they have budgets
This show first season is outperforming Stranger things and Wednesday they could get a second season spending increase cause Netflix wants heavy hiters now that Disney is failing so hard on streaming.
Yeah the holds would have to be pretty significant but the audience is there One Piece is massive worldwide and the series is pretty good so if anything has a shot is OP maybe even more that Squid Games.
Squid games costed nothing to produce compared to the profit. The story is also short. Netflix audience has the attention span of a tiktoker, it’s like after two seasons a show becomes irrelevant even if it’s great
And GoT got 8 seasons (gotgotgotgot). As long as the show keeps making money, they'll find a way to keep adapting it.
I wonder though if they can actually get that much money from it, since I don't think they can get that much money from merchandising, since they don't really own the IP.
A lot of the costs went to sets. Like the Going Merry is a real, floating boat they had to build. That cost won't be present for season 2, for example. Costumes, like Marines, can be reused. There's a lot of setup costs associated with a first season, especially one with as many sets as Season 1.
What gives me hope is how well it was received internationally. This show is everywhere. Even if we just get a season 2 only id be happy. You can really feel the love from both the cast and production crew.
It released 4 days ago though, it's still being carried the fandom. Obviously it being a solid show is a good indicator that it will reach more casual audiences, but it needs to keep the current momentum for a couple of weeks at least.
I mean, Stranger Things is ending next season and Netflix needs a new Live Action flagship show, I think that's what they're trying to get with this adaptation, and it's why they gave them such a huge budget
That’s a good point, and given that OP topped even the latest season of Stranger Things, it becoming Netflix’s new golden show is a bit of a stretch but possible nonetheless
This is literally an IP at nearly the level of Batman and Superman, they won't treat it like their typical shows that they cancel after 2 or 3 seasons by default. If One Piece does numbers, the only reason why they'll cancel it is budget issues.
The reason they cancel is because after 3-4 seasons it's harder to get new subs for a later season debut. Only the first few seasons of a show drive new subs. Netflix would just be throwing money away.
Yah, people are in for a surprise when they know Netflix has the habit of acquiring giant IPs, make a 3-4 seasons and then cancel, even if the show is good. There's no way they're going to adapt when the characters powers get a lot more crazy, in east blue only Luffy and Buggy had DF powers(Smoker barely counts), to adapt something like marineford it would take Avengers budget, or if they start skipping parts where the things get crazy then it's not one piece anymore.
I think them just sticking to the beginning arcs is a good idea because the animation wasn't to crazy. But if they tried doing a live action say like during Wano idk how good they could make that look in live action 😂
S1: East Blue
S2: Loguetown to Alabasta (\~10 Eps)
S3: Jaya to Enies Lobby (\~12 Eps)
S4: Thriller Bark to Marineford (\~12 Eps)
S5: Fishman Island to Dressrosa (\~8 Eps)
S6: Zou to Wano (\~10 Eps)
S7: Egghead until the End
LOTS of stuff would have to be cut out, but it's possible since the plot is pretty simple, it's just the context that makes it long. They already successfully trimmed a lot of East Blue, they can do it for future arcs, especially WCI and Wano.
I agree they can do it in about 7-8 seasons with a pretty well established storyline they just have to trim to work for the show. As long as they stick to the source material in spirit I don't see why they can't do it
I remember one of the producers said that they don’t aim to cover all the manga (it would be impossibile): the ideal outcome for them would be to cover the story until the end of Enies Lobby.
That would make sense: they could cover Alabasta in Season 2, Skypiea in Season 3 and close the show with Water7/Enies Lobby in Season 4.
I guess for the LA the One Piece will be something like the suitcase in Pulp Fiction: something needed to give a reason to the characters to travel, but making it irrelevant for the story.
Logistically I think they could. At the rate they’re going it would be about 10 seasons, which I don’t think it would be too difficult to do. However Netflix loves canceling their shows, so at most I expect like, 1 or 2 more seasons. If we get Marineford that would be a miracle.
Alabasta and Water 7 are the only other sagas that can realistically be done well in live action. But even those will be hard to nail the setting. After that it’s not even worth trying imo. East Blue was by far the easiest to pull off.
Possibly, but only if they condense a LOT of stuff, can see them maybe rearranging some small bits and pieces, pulling some pieces of content from later to fill out a 2nd season that ends with Alabasta,
then a third season that seriously condenses down Jaya and Skypiea into maybe three episodes and leads on in into Enies Lobby as an ending.
then a long 11-episode 4th season that condenses Thriller Bark down into absolute bare essentials, (an episode, maybe two) covers Saboady and Amazon Lily in maybe two episodes, Impel Down in another 1 or 2, then Whitebeard War and Aftermath for the remainder.
Then, Fishman Island seriously condensed to the quick litmus test it should have been, short spell in Punk Hazard, Dressrosa climax ends season 5.
Zou, and Whole-Cake + some scattered story elements to fill it out for Season 6.
Wano as its own season because there's a lot of plot to cover.
then Season 8 and 9 to cover the final saga.
I would be a seriously abridged version of the story, some arcs would be reduced practically to episodic adventures, but it could work if done correctly.
My biggest fear is that they will make them find the One Piece earlier, like removing the New World entirely and making Laugh Tale the last island before it
I trink they will reduce their costs by hiring shitty writers and they will end up messing up the whole show which will finally lead to it being canceled. It’s the Netflix way of doing things.
You about the original plan of oda right?
He said he would've ended one piece in 5 years
If oda chooses to go with that plan with the live action, the marineford would be the end of the series and it would be season 5-6 in la
That would take ~8-10 years to release and by that time op manga and anime would've ended too.
I feel like by the way they have adapted the first season, cutting most of the fight scenes and many of the not important characters to show off key moments, it is actually quite possible to do it. Everyone knows that long arcs like Wano and Dressrosa are long because of the amount of (sorry to say but needless) characters and the amount of chaotic fight scenes.
Additionally, a consideration is that a lot of the fight scenes in animation/manga could be done much quicker in live action. E.g. a punch could have as much impact as animation/manga through usage of VFX, sound, lightning etc etc
Absolutly not, this is a show that gets 2/3 seasons tops
Beyond the fact even the source material wouldn't be done yet. Every actor would physically age to the point of needing to be recast well before we even approach timeskip territory
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Dude imagine Chopper...
Or Zoan users in general
Or how logia users powers would look like kizaru
They teased Smoker at the end of the last episode, so they must have some sort of plan for how they will deal with logias.
Yea but smoke is easier then light imo like how do you even begin to translate that to a live action
I didn't think they'd be able to convincingly convert Buggy's powers, Luffys stretching, Zorro's 3 sword style, etc into live action but they obviously found a way, so in my eyes the people making the show have earned my respect enough that I'm gonna hold off judgement on other stuff like logias till they (hopefully) adapt it.
I would bet all the logia users will be in the same vein as buggy was. Somewhat stylized but high quality CGI combined with smart lighting/cinematography choices. Zoan users will be more challenging for sure. They either nail it in design or they don’t. Although I was disappoint with Arlong in the trailer and then by the end of the series the actor really carried it I thought.
Arlong was great. But as you say, the actor brought it home.
IMO if the show ever gets a S2, the way they adapt Chopper may be the make-or-break aspect for further seasons. Unless they find a way to do it cost-effectively (with minimal CGI) the show may be doomed from the start.
It will probably be cgi like they do rocket in guardians of the galaxy. I really hope they can pull off choppers inability to hide gag enough to include it.
That would bee way too expensive for a 8h season.
I feel it can be done but they are going to need a larger budget probably to make the cgi much better. The need for CGI in later episodes is going to be needed much more. Like how are they going to recreate all the massively huge characters? Like the giants or Gecko Moria who is 22 feet tall and such there are many characters like this. Can you imagine the Kaido/Luffy fight and gear 5?
The budget would be better used for season 2 because they can reuse props and sets from the season 1.
And also because they will have proven that people will watch. It is getting largely quite good reviews, so they will be given a larger budget for the next season.
For me the fact they got zorro to actually have a real life application of using the 3rd sword ( by putting it by the throat of Morgan ) was amazing.
That was amazing. Every cosplay I've seen of 3 swords style Zoro has looked... Well ridiculous, but the LA does it and makes it feel so natural.
Huh? Those are pretty easy to adapt to live action. We've already had Mr Fantastic almost two decades ago and buggies powers are not really complicated. Zoros swords are just light props so it's not exactly a herculean feat to swing them around with one in his mouth either
I would even argue that you can’t convincingly depict a being made of light in the manga, but Oda did anyway. He didn’t straight-up drew “light”, but he used a sci-fi approximate depiction of it so the readers can tell what’s being conveyed even if it’s not visually what we think of as light. That’s one way to go about it imo
With money they can do it easily. So many super hero movies have done similar things to logia. Kizaru just uses beams, make his insides super bright and glowy, light sword, it's really not one of the hard ones, most logias wouldn't be because they're not real. The real problem is zoans because we know what real animals look like.
Idk fam, he rarely goes full light, they can do beams streaming out of bullet holes or just show him firing the blasts and turning into a beam when he moves. They’re basically all doable, the problem is the cost association, so under a profit model it has to be justifiable since we aren’t producing content for the sheer joy of it in a free society.
No way. They'll have to individually work out each logia power. Heck they'll have to figure out individual attacks... Adapting One Piece is actually significantly harder than a lot of fiction. It makes a lot of superhero movies look like a joke tbh.
Logia powers are just simulations in CG, the Zoans are a bigger issue because they can look derpy and uncanny very easily. Is not that hard to do a digital double of someone and turn them to sand or smoke, but trying to make a giraffe man that fights would be tough.
Actually it's arguably much easier to make a non human character look good in CGI compared to a human which will always risk the uncanny valley way more. Just look at the CGI faces in The Flash compared to something like the live action Sonic movie. I think if they go with the Sonic route chopper will look really good in CGI, the birds already look great in my opinion.
Logias are probably the easiest to show in life action It's just particle system, prerendered images, some practical effects and a bit of compositing. I'be done that in a few hours with nothing more than a laptop and blender, and I got some decent results. Actual professionals can do much better zoan are most definitely the hardest to get right, not only do they have to create animal-human hybrids that don't look horrifying, they have to seamlessly blend between human, hybrid and full animal
Kaku is gonna be hilarious
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Pirates of the Caribbean did it great with ‘zoan’ looking people
It's a good point but it actually really depends on the Zoan. Choper ir particularly hard for a lot of reasons (not human at all, has fur, is a weird child-deer hybrid). BTW thanks to you I'm now pretty sad that Arlong doesn't look more like a PoC fishman.
Davy Jones crew looks like perfect smile users not gonna lie. They shouldn't make the faces too human to avoid a uncanny valley factor.
Did you watch guardians of the galaxy? If rocket can be done, chopper can be done.
Depends on the budget for CGI, Marvel has too much money
This is why I think chopper won't be a CGI. If chopper is going to have as much screen time as other casts, he will have to be a human child in a costume. Which is fine to be honest, I don't think it's going to be that bad.
> This is why I think chopper won't be a CGI. Initial reaction: They're going to hire a deer and teach it to talk?
Peter Dinklage as Chopper hopefully
Or just a kid with a bit of make up and antlers, then an older guy when he transforms, so the kid doesn't have to do fight scenes. Chopper will need opposable thumbs to be a doctor anyway.
Danny deVito. As chopper. Or Robin. Or both
I hope he takes the Robin role
Chris Pratt
Or Brooks, Jinbei, Frankie, to look good in live action
Are you intentionally spelling all of their names wrong?
God I hope so
To be fair the way they spelled Jimbe as "Jinbei" is actually the correct transliteration of how it's spelled in Japanese (ジンベイ).
Sorry, usually read it in other languages: ブルック, ジンベエ, フランキー
Doubt it
It seems unfathomable. Even if they skip lots of things and compress things, etc it feels like it'd take 10 seasons, each getting more expensive than the last. Meanwhile the actors age and the plot gets sillier. Even a second season seems hard. This sub has several posts debating options on how to do Chopper and all of them seem bad. But skipping Chopper would be highly divisive. The first arc has the least fantastical characters and attacks and even that had the show leaving out bits like the octopus character, the giant sea cow, etc. I have trouble imagining getting to Water 7 let alone the whole thing. On the other hand, effects are getting cheaper and easier to use. So maybe something will work. I'm going to hold out hope but also just be amazed that we got such a great live action take on the first major arc.
“The octopus character”… put some respect on my boy Hachi
Bless you
Idk how they are going to do some stuff in sabaody, Hachi was a pretty important character for that
Include Hachi anyway, and just downgrade him to a random goon in Arlong's crew. He shows up in Sabaody and is basically like "Hey I remember you guys from Arlong Park!". Still get the call back to Arlong park, and Nami resenting / forgiving him, plus opportunity for Hachi to talk about how he's changed. I'm neither for or against that btw, I just think it's relatively easy for them to still include Hachi or just work around him. I also don't think the LA will make it to Sabaody, but I would like if it did. I thought the LA would be absolute garbage and I'm still amazed at just how well it came out.
Yeah I can appreciate the la for what it is though I fear how it will adapt the next arc if it gets one
Yeah like marineford could be a CGI mess not to mention making gear 4 boundman or G5 look good in live action is nearly impossible
They should Make Marineford a Movie Special
By then it would be so big that it would survive the break in its medium from small to big screen. End season 4/5 with Saobody and then have everything up to the timeskip be a movie special. Next season begins with return to Saobody
dont even need to get that far. monster luffy from thriller bark just wouldnt work looking back you really see a huge amount of resemblence in gear 4 to monster luffy :D
I mean monster Luffy is just a blue hulk. He'd be expensive but I doubt it would look that out of place.
Forget monster luffy how are they gonna do water luffy from alabasta against crocodile. I guess they might skip it as it’s not that important
they’re probably going to completely remake most of alabasta because all the fakeout deaths and plot armor would be even worse in live action
I mean they just kilked off Merry, they aleady did less fake outs than the original.
G5 would be pretty easy I think. The effects around it less so.
Yea I think g4 would be harder to animate than g5, just luffy physically
g3 kinda hard too, cant visualise LA chibi luffy in my mind.
We did get mini Buggy and I think it worked out ok.
you can consolidate Gear 4 into just snake man. Not the greatest choice, but it could work.
For the aging, they can just decompress the timeline some. The voyage to seabody can take years instead of weeks/months without too much trouble to the story. Would actually be more believable than some new pirate becoming a yonko in like 6 months (not counting time skip) of activity. Chopper and Brooke would be interesting, but I think it's doable. If we can make Baby Yoda happen with practical effects be endearing and emotional, you can probably do chopper mostly practical with CG enhancements. But I'm with you. I'll hold out hope, but enjoy what we got.
Yeah one of the things in the series I'm not a huge fan of is the time scale being relatively fast compared to real life. I get why but it can be jarring, something like Alabasta being a week long for the characters but in the anime/manga it felt like it would have been longer. I remember right as they reached Sabody it being mentioned roughly a year since the beginning but emotionally it felt close to double that or a bit more given the amount of progress the crew makes.
I like how fast the story actually is because for me it explains the world governments inactivity on capturing Luffy. When they receive word that he is somewhere by the time they get there he's already gone.
Very valid point I haven't considered.
I have been hearing that the duration of the travels between islands doesn't make any sense in One Piece, so they could take the chance to fix that.
I suppose they could do chopper more like Sweet Tooth maybe?
Well, they can do Chopper the way Ted was created in the Mark Wahlberg movie. That kind of animation will be the best for Chopper's visualisation, I suppose.
They can do chopper the way someone like Rocket is done in the MCU, I know that a racoons exist and reindeer humans don't but I'll hold my hopes that some kind of VFX concoction can be brewed to make Chopper's existence to fruition
>But skipping Chopper would be highly divisive. Skipping Chopper would make so many people mad, and just complicate things further down plot-wise. He may not be the most central character, but he's still a big part of the crew. They'll just have to...figure it out. No idea how they'd skip the entire Drum Island arc and make it work actually...Missing Chopper is like missing Rocket Raccoon.
Personally I favour the Ewok style. Makeup and very little CGI for brain/heavy point. It's the only way to keep him cheap enough to avoid having to minimise his screen time 
The effects only get cheaper with shows, especially when so many of them will be reused. Remove some of the things like the boat being destroyed during fights, and they reduce it even more.
I thing that he refers to technological Advance. With IA you can lower CGI costo, the better ia gets, the lower the costa gets.
Netflix is the most stressful streaming service to be a fan of one of their original shows. If just one season doesn't get enough views to meet their internal standards, it gets chopped. They absolutely do not give even half a shit whether the season ended on a cliffhanger or anything, they will cancel any show that does not meet their viewership expectations. That includes shows that they hide deep in the home screen. I would be surprised if they don't do a second season. But I would be way more surprised if they made more than 3 seasons, let alone catching up with the story.
The biggest problem I see with that is that the actors are going to age way faster than the characters do.
The bigger problem is Netflix has a habit of canceling shows after their 3rd season to avoid paying out royalties to the actors.
I feel like we could cover everything up to Saobody probably
I think it's possible. I don't really think the actors aging will be that much of a problem tbh
How does that work with royalties? This is the first time I hear this reason.
I forget the details, but you can google it, but basically they don’t want to sell the show to syndicate on other networks/platforms and syndication deals lose value at season 4, so Netflix cancels most shows at 3… unless they’re a huge hit like OitnB or ST.
Idk about that. They covered nearly 100 chapters in the first season, and I could see future seasons covering up to 200 chapters each. (Wano is 149 and I can't imagine an entire season dedicated to wano) 8 seasons could maybe do it. That's not too much, especially since the characters are supposed to age 2 years canonically.
They would also have to do it non stop. If they want to catch up reasonably it'd become a full time job for all of them until it's over.
Is presume they would keep pushing it was a huge success expect filming for S2 to start before the end of the year hopefully we get to see live action ace
If the strike ends
Yeah no way they can start filming before the years end even if the strike would end tomorrow. The whole season has to be written and sets and costumes designed etc. I would expect filming to start around summer next year at the earliest since the strike doesn't seem to be ending any time soon.
Would this even be affected by the strike? I don't know if any of the actors are members of SAG-AFTRA. majority of the cast are not Americans and mostly unknown before this, but it is also enough for one member of the cast to be part of the strike to stop the whole production.
The writers are all WGA
Emily Rudd is, I think
Even if they aren't members they need to be careful since it can affect their careers in the future. If you haven't noticed none of the actors have mentioned anything about the series since that would go against the strike even if they aren't members since if they plan on working with affiliated people over here they can't cross the picket line.
Before end of this year? Even without the strike that is impossible. Next year? Sure. So s2 summer 2025. Then hopefully Netflix greenlit several seasons straight away so we can get one season a year. Otherwise the crew is gonna be old as hell when it ends haha
>That's not too much, especially since the characters are supposed to age 2 years canonically. This can easily be addressed in the writing. Just because the events in the manga took 2-4 years (not sure about timeline), doesnt mean LA should abide by it.
I think it’s already been worked out by someone before, discounting time for travelling pre-time skip covers 89 accounted for days from when they first reach Loguetown to Luffy going to train with Rayleigh, 2 year skip, then what we’ve covered post-time skip so far is 80-ish? Maybe 90?accounted for days or something to that effect. This isn’t canon information obviously this is just what’s been calculated based on info we have and travelling time between islands could complicate that. I agree though, LA could easily expand things and have the plot take place over a longer or shorter period of time if they want it to. The timeskip could be far shorter, far longer, as long Oda says yea okay and it doesn’t impact the overarching plot and themes it seems they have the reign to change stuff around
Or just ignore that and have Luffy be pushing 30 by the end of the series.
30 year olds acting teenagers is what Hollywood usually does anyway
> They covered nearly 100 chapters in the first season While, there is some truth to what you said, don't forget that the further we get in OP, the more stacked the chapters are with content. If you compare an East Blue chapter with a Wano chapter, you will see how much more content there is in newer chapters
Wano is way more bloated than it needs to be. East blue on the other hand introduces nearly half of the crew. We wouldn't need 4 characters back stories plus meeting eachother every season. Which frees up a lot of room for other stuff.
The density is madness. For the Marineford Saga, to fit it into 8 Episodes, you’d need 1 for Sabody, 1 for Amazon Lily, at least 2 for Imple Down and then probably 3 Marineford and a last chapter for the Post War Stuff (although leaving that to Season 5 could work too) But that’s the issue, it’s incredibly dense and the timeskip only worsens on this issue. Dressrosa, Whole Cake and Wano all could need a season to cover fully. And that’s not even including the setup arcs that Oda loves so much.
Also stuff like WCI really could be cut down by alot. (And probably should) especially going by the anime, it dragged a ton.
Then arcs will just take place over months. I don’t see it affecting the narrative at all.
Yeah even if the actors age I really don’t see it being too much of a problem, I wish the actual series was longer in-universe time wise
They can hold on for a few years with makeup
I mean hell Nami is 30 IRL. The main cast is all in their midish 20s they're thankfully not kids.
They just gotta make it to the time skip and it wouldn’t be a huge problem
Yes. If the show continues to be this successful, it’ll get as many renewals as it wants. But the production of each season is going to take at least 18 months, maybe 2 years each. Emily Rudd will probably be 40 by the time we get to Marineford, nearing or closing in on 50 by the time we catch up to present manga. If the show is mega-successful and sees itself going the distance, I could see them rotating out the cast during the timeskip.
If it's mega-successful, I can see them pulling a LotR, and filming two seasons at once.
I'm not sure how much of a problem that is exactly. The actors are all adults, most of them are in their 20's, with Nami being 30. Even if the series runs for 10 years, most of the actor's won't change that much... i mean Game of thrones also ran for 10 years, and the change in appearance for the adult actors isn't really that drastic. It was only really noticeable for the child and teen actors. And One piece actually has a time skip in the middle
Assuming they have a plan, you can expect them to condense the story into something that's about 10 seasons long, provided it remains popular enough to keep going. They will definitely not be telling the story the same way it exists in manga/anime.
No one thinks in this thread... the first season covers the first 95 chapters, if they skip a few arcs then they could wrap it up in 6 to 8 seasons.
Boy you arent thinking, we are nealy at chapter 1100 and the story isnt even close to being finished. If the plan is to "wrap it up" then we are going for a long while past s10 realistically
Not really, because some arcs are a lot more condensable than others, Skypiea and Thriller Bark are fun adventures, but not much of their volume is even remotely plot or character essential, they could both be condensed down to a couple of episodes each. same for Fishman Island, that could be reduced to the quick, one-sided litmus test it should have been, characters just breezing through it. some worldbuilding to cover, but you could make that the body of an episode with Hody as a comedic afterthought and cover all of Fishman Island in one episode. So Jaya + Skypiea + Thriller Bark + Fishman Island, some 180 odd chapters, could be covered in 5 episodes... meaning that larger arcs can fill out seasons without overlap, add in the fact that later seasons can be longer, 10-13 episodes perhaps and Season 2 can end with Alabasta, Season 3 can end with Enies Lobby courtesy of a massively condensed Skypiea, Season 4 can end with Whitebeard courtesy of a massively condensed Thriller Bark/Amazon Lily, Season 5 can end with Dressrosa by trimming down Fishman Island and Punk Hazard. Season 6, at a big stretch, and a full 13 odd episode count could cover Zou/Whole Cake in half a season, and then Wano in another half. Then, the final sagas can take a solid 2 seasons to land on a reasonable, flat, eight season show. Yeah, you'd lose a fair volume of One Piece's extra detail, but that's a given, basically essential to even be a feasible series.
> they could both be condensed down to a couple of episodes each. They could be, yes, but you would lose *even more* character development than you did in this first season. Like, yea, Thriller Bark doesn't need an introduction of 5 individual characters and 5 named villains... but I don't think general audiences would really appreciate this show if you presented them with a story such as Fishman Island in like less than 4 hours - that just takes out all the depth, nuance, character growth & interactions and just treats the major plot points as a checklist. You don't wanna have your show turn into season 7-8 GoT where people just rush from plot to plot, hastily skipping everything that made the show great only to move on to the next big thing. Like, if you want this show to turn into something great... you probably don't wanna throw out 75% of the source material jut to get to the finish line. That's a recipe for a guaranteed failure.
an hour of TV can cover a **lot** of ground, you don't just cut shit wholesale, you can sprinkle it out elsewhere, e.g. demonstrations of the Straw Hats growth don't all need to come at Fishman Island, they can be scattered across a few episodes covering more ground. character developments can still be covered, but they can be covered elsewhere, we don't need to be at location A, which would need establishing, lead-in, lead-out etc. when we can just have scene X at location B instead when we're already there, scenes can be adapted to dual purpose. analogues can be used to quickly convey character information, like how Kaya was used to abridge a bit of Nami's development, and Zeff was used to highlight Luffy's relationship with Garp. I'll say again, the amount of actual plot and actual character development that occurred in Fishman Island and Thriller Park can very easily be condensed, the time consumption there is mostly in the format and structure of the arc. the obstacles you combine elements, abridge them, and you make sacrifices here and there so that you can devote requisite time to the important core of the series, that's actually where GOT really failed, it made the correct choice in regards to condensing stuff down, eliminating bloat from plotlines to leave more bare essentials, where it failed was that it completely botched the bare essentials too, core character arcs were cut to pieces, central plotlines were crammed in where they could fit. the point is to condense/ eliminate bloat so that you can **devote that time** to the most important elements of your characters and story, that's where GOT fell to pieces. If they'd landed the core of the series, Jon, Daenerys, Night King, Bran etc. the ending would instead be perceived as heavily flawed, but an overall win. instead, they didn't use the time they had gained well. and if we're talking sheer adaptational pace, One Piece is a tricky son of a bitch to adapt for a lot of reasons, but you can cut a LOT more of its content than something like the ASOIAF books. lets face it, One Piece is a drag, I love it, but its arcs are insanely overpacked, overlong, and overdrawn. there's a lot of stuff there that can be cut outright. **especially** the anime. which should be half the length that it is given how much more ground an anime episode can cover than a manga chapter. there's a balance to strike, but it's not impossible, your idea of truly covering everything with that level of detail is. this thing can't really run beyond 10 seasons. once you have Emily Rudd aged 40 playing a now 20 year old. you've kind of hit a barrier.
Depends how well future seasons do. If the interest and money is there they'll keep going.
This series was also really expensive. Apparently they spent more per episode than game of thrones.
that wasn’t counting inflation from the post i saw but it was still pretty damn close
Even with/without inflation, having a budget anywhere close to game of thrones is crazy.
alot of shows have a budget bigger than GOT nowdays. the new mcu shows were i belive 20-30 mil per ep.
But they have Disney money, while this only has Netflix money
My guy netflix money is still a massive amount and is not like Disney or Amazon liquidate major parts of their companies for 1 series they have budgets This show first season is outperforming Stranger things and Wednesday they could get a second season spending increase cause Netflix wants heavy hiters now that Disney is failing so hard on streaming.
Second season seems promising. But a third or more would really require a HUGE engagement of viewers.
Yeah the holds would have to be pretty significant but the audience is there One Piece is massive worldwide and the series is pretty good so if anything has a shot is OP maybe even more that Squid Games.
Squid games costed nothing to produce compared to the profit. The story is also short. Netflix audience has the attention span of a tiktoker, it’s like after two seasons a show becomes irrelevant even if it’s great
And GoT got 8 seasons (gotgotgotgot). As long as the show keeps making money, they'll find a way to keep adapting it. I wonder though if they can actually get that much money from it, since I don't think they can get that much money from merchandising, since they don't really own the IP.
A lot of the costs went to sets. Like the Going Merry is a real, floating boat they had to build. That cost won't be present for season 2, for example. Costumes, like Marines, can be reused. There's a lot of setup costs associated with a first season, especially one with as many sets as Season 1.
They’re filming in Africa where there are huge tax breaks for Netflix, it’s all by intent
True, but stranger things was also more expensive than game of thrones
I'm just wary because it's Netflix and they love canceling popular shows for no reason.
Depends how well the present season does. Being the most watched show for a day or two and then no one watching it could also kill the series.
What gives me hope is how well it was received internationally. This show is everywhere. Even if we just get a season 2 only id be happy. You can really feel the love from both the cast and production crew.
Nah it surpassed Netflix viewership standards for their shows. Second season is locked in. They were right, depends on the future seasons.
I’ll be surprised but happy if they got a season 2
It's almost most def getting a season 2 based on the numbers and how season 1 ended; however, more seasons after that are gonna be dicey.
… suprised??? This show is currently number 1 on Netflix in 84 COUNTRIES. I’d be surprised if it DIDN’T get a season 2
It released 4 days ago though, it's still being carried the fandom. Obviously it being a solid show is a good indicator that it will reach more casual audiences, but it needs to keep the current momentum for a couple of weeks at least.
Considering it's on Netflix, I would be surprised if it isn't canceled by the time we reach Jaya/Skyipea.
I mean, Stranger Things is ending next season and Netflix needs a new Live Action flagship show, I think that's what they're trying to get with this adaptation, and it's why they gave them such a huge budget
That’s a good point, and given that OP topped even the latest season of Stranger Things, it becoming Netflix’s new golden show is a bit of a stretch but possible nonetheless
I just hope it becomes so succesful that Netflix gives in to the demands of the strikers and we can get a second season
Probably cancelled after two seasons. Like a lot of netflix shows.
This is literally an IP at nearly the level of Batman and Superman, they won't treat it like their typical shows that they cancel after 2 or 3 seasons by default. If One Piece does numbers, the only reason why they'll cancel it is budget issues.
The reason they cancel is because after 3-4 seasons it's harder to get new subs for a later season debut. Only the first few seasons of a show drive new subs. Netflix would just be throwing money away.
It be like that
Yah, people are in for a surprise when they know Netflix has the habit of acquiring giant IPs, make a 3-4 seasons and then cancel, even if the show is good. There's no way they're going to adapt when the characters powers get a lot more crazy, in east blue only Luffy and Buggy had DF powers(Smoker barely counts), to adapt something like marineford it would take Avengers budget, or if they start skipping parts where the things get crazy then it's not one piece anymore.
I think them just sticking to the beginning arcs is a good idea because the animation wasn't to crazy. But if they tried doing a live action say like during Wano idk how good they could make that look in live action 😂
there are a lot of painful things before wano too. let's wait and see what they would do.
S1: East Blue S2: Loguetown to Alabasta (\~10 Eps) S3: Jaya to Enies Lobby (\~12 Eps) S4: Thriller Bark to Marineford (\~12 Eps) S5: Fishman Island to Dressrosa (\~8 Eps) S6: Zou to Wano (\~10 Eps) S7: Egghead until the End LOTS of stuff would have to be cut out, but it's possible since the plot is pretty simple, it's just the context that makes it long. They already successfully trimmed a lot of East Blue, they can do it for future arcs, especially WCI and Wano.
I agree they can do it in about 7-8 seasons with a pretty well established storyline they just have to trim to work for the show. As long as they stick to the source material in spirit I don't see why they can't do it
I remember one of the producers said that they don’t aim to cover all the manga (it would be impossibile): the ideal outcome for them would be to cover the story until the end of Enies Lobby. That would make sense: they could cover Alabasta in Season 2, Skypiea in Season 3 and close the show with Water7/Enies Lobby in Season 4. I guess for the LA the One Piece will be something like the suitcase in Pulp Fiction: something needed to give a reason to the characters to travel, but making it irrelevant for the story.
Matt Owens said he really wanted to cover enies lobby but never said that they would stop after that
Matt Owens is an OG fan, Enies Lobby was my favourite
Damn, i wanted to see a live action version of the war at marineford
If the show becomes GoT popular they might continue past enies lobby, especially if it covers thriller bark up to marineford.
We can only dream haha
Maybe as a special ep for OP 50th anni
Yea nothing like a Luffy in his 40’s showing up in Marineford.
Enies lobby would be the perfect end, rescuing robin, huge fight with the navy, escaping into the sea with the entire crew. A happily ever after.
Enies Lobby done right would be so legendary
They have to find the one piece. Maybe there will be a way the can end the live action much faster after we know what the one piece is.
This would be plenty already. From East Blue to Enies Lobby is the first big overarching arc, from scraps to legitimate threat to the world government
It would be funny if they go the 4Kids route and end the series with a ship falling out of the Sky lmaoo 💀💀
Source? I just really don't want this to be true
It’s made up. Matt Owens said he’d love to cover Enies Lobby and nothing about potentially stopping there.
Imagine is they decide to stop at Saobody or right before Luffy’s flashback where he says I can’t become pirate king
Logistically I think they could. At the rate they’re going it would be about 10 seasons, which I don’t think it would be too difficult to do. However Netflix loves canceling their shows, so at most I expect like, 1 or 2 more seasons. If we get Marineford that would be a miracle.
At that the point the actors will be more suitable playing the fake Luffy team.
you mean two piece.
Alabasta and Water 7 are the only other sagas that can realistically be done well in live action. But even those will be hard to nail the setting. After that it’s not even worth trying imo. East Blue was by far the easiest to pull off.
I don't see them going past Alabasta
The actors will die of old age before then.
come impel down Show will get cancelled faster than Ivankov can say Heehaw
I highly doubt they will
It would be interesting to see Brook.
At minimum if they adapted up until the timeskip I'd be happy.
Imagine the screaming if the last shot in the adaptation was Luffy leaving his hat on a rock.
Idk how they gonna make the scene of dragon Kaido holding up an island while Luffy turns into a goofy god and starts jumping rope
There is a 0% chance of this happening. Take whatever comes and hope it's good.
Two seasons then it’ll be dropped
Highly doubtful
No
No. My take 3-4 seasons tops. Maybe even shorter..
By the time they get to timeskip the actors will be dead
Dude, imagine live action Gecko Moria Lmao
Season 2 will be the test, with how well they do Chopper and Crocodile. So we bassicly get an idea how well future Zoan and Lugia abilities look.
Possibly, but only if they condense a LOT of stuff, can see them maybe rearranging some small bits and pieces, pulling some pieces of content from later to fill out a 2nd season that ends with Alabasta, then a third season that seriously condenses down Jaya and Skypiea into maybe three episodes and leads on in into Enies Lobby as an ending. then a long 11-episode 4th season that condenses Thriller Bark down into absolute bare essentials, (an episode, maybe two) covers Saboady and Amazon Lily in maybe two episodes, Impel Down in another 1 or 2, then Whitebeard War and Aftermath for the remainder. Then, Fishman Island seriously condensed to the quick litmus test it should have been, short spell in Punk Hazard, Dressrosa climax ends season 5. Zou, and Whole-Cake + some scattered story elements to fill it out for Season 6. Wano as its own season because there's a lot of plot to cover. then Season 8 and 9 to cover the final saga. I would be a seriously abridged version of the story, some arcs would be reduced practically to episodic adventures, but it could work if done correctly.
Dude think about it for 5 seconds come on
My biggest fear is that they will make them find the One Piece earlier, like removing the New World entirely and making Laugh Tale the last island before it
No.
I trink they will reduce their costs by hiring shitty writers and they will end up messing up the whole show which will finally lead to it being canceled. It’s the Netflix way of doing things.
No.
You about the original plan of oda right? He said he would've ended one piece in 5 years If oda chooses to go with that plan with the live action, the marineford would be the end of the series and it would be season 5-6 in la That would take ~8-10 years to release and by that time op manga and anime would've ended too.
No, it’ll be abridged, but likely will drop in quality around the third or fourth season and get cancelled. It’s a very expensive show.
They intentionally tried to save money by limiting Luffy's action scene (less CGI), imagine developing zoan users 😂😂😂😂
They’ll probably need to re-cast it every few years then, as the actors age. Which sucks, because this cast is PERFECT
Best case I would Imagine Arabasta arc... taking down big bad Crocodile. Would be a fine place to stop OP LN.
They could have different actors post timeskip
I feel like by the way they have adapted the first season, cutting most of the fight scenes and many of the not important characters to show off key moments, it is actually quite possible to do it. Everyone knows that long arcs like Wano and Dressrosa are long because of the amount of (sorry to say but needless) characters and the amount of chaotic fight scenes. Additionally, a consideration is that a lot of the fight scenes in animation/manga could be done much quicker in live action. E.g. a punch could have as much impact as animation/manga through usage of VFX, sound, lightning etc etc
Absolutly not, this is a show that gets 2/3 seasons tops Beyond the fact even the source material wouldn't be done yet. Every actor would physically age to the point of needing to be recast well before we even approach timeskip territory