the first official announcement for the one-piece live action was made by oda himself all the way
back in 2017. in this statement he told us that there would be 10 episodes in the first season
and that they were working very hard behind the scenes to prepare for the production of the series
the production company behind the project is tomorrow studios also known for their work
on the cowboy bebop live action adaptation keep in mind that it's very important to distinguish
between the showrunners and the scriptwriters of the series from the production company because it
is a completely different team of people than the ones that worked on the cowboy bebop show so fast
forward to 2020 during the eighth reverie hosted by rogers base where we got an exclusive interview
with matt owens the showrunner of the series he answered a lot of questions that fans had and gave
a really encouraging speech about how dedicated he was to the show he even shed some light on a very
emotional conversation he had with oda who was actually an executive producer himself about the
direction he wanted to take the show in to which oda responded i have 100 faith in you which i
really think speaks for itself according to the anime news network and anime herald the show could
potentially cost nine to ten million dollars per episode putting the total budget for the season
around 100 million dollars this would not only make it one of the most high budget tv shows to
ever be produced but also make it the highest tv show to ever be produced in the continent of
africa it would place the series up there with a lot of other really popular tv shows
like the mandalorian or game of thrones seeing is how profitable one piece is already i wouldn't be
surprised if oda throws in a little extra money there himself the 10 episodes in season 1 will
cover the entirety of the east blue saga with the end of the season being the straw hats making
their journey up reverse mountain and into the grand line no one really knows yet how the season
will end or what the showrunners might use as a cliffhanger but i feel like it's fair to speculate
that it's probably going to be the moment during the storm where they're going up reverse mountain
or the moment where they finally enter the grand line maybe they'll use laboon as a cliffhanger or
a big antagonist for the next arc like crocodile in a leaked image of the official script we got
our first look of the logo of the series along with the title of the first episode romance dawn
we also got a potential leak of a scene with zorro cutting down mr seven of baroque works a really
cool reference to possibly a season two along with our introduction of alvita you're welcome
to pause and read the script leak if you would like to but keep in mind that it's definitely
not confirmed that this is an official part of the show so please read it with a grain of salt
in late 2021 we finally got our first official cast announcement revealing the five main members
of the straw hat crew these choices by oda and the showrunners were made not only by their respective
talent but how they carry themselves and how well they can embody the characters i think this
was the biggest turning point in recent history where we finally got some credibility to the idea
that this project could turn out good since the first official casting announcement that i just
mentioned we've gotten a lot of other really cool reveals on actors for the show although we still
don't have all the names of the actors for all of the roles that are going to be in the season i
think the order in which the casting announcements were made gives us some sort of inclination on
the direction the show owners are taking with the characters in order from the first announcement to
the latest announcement the cast of the one piece live action includes enaki godoy as luffy makenu
as zoro taz skyler as sanji emily rudd is nami and jacob romero gibson as us the second announcement
includes morgan davies as kobe aiden scott as hell meppo vincent reagan as garp jeff ward is
buggy mckinley belker as arlong and elia surelys palino as alvida the third announcement gave us
peter gadio as shanks jean henry as full body and len barry simmons as chu i think it's interesting
that we've gotten an announcement for full body and not don creek but hopefully we're gonna see
that casting announcement soon because don krieg is one of my favorite antagonists of the east blue
saga most recently during netflix's geek week event we got new cast reveals such as alexander
maniatis as clawhador langley kirkwood as captain morgan celeste lutz as kaya kyoma umela as nochiko
craig fairbrass as chef zeph and steven ward as mihawk to cap it off right before we also got
lindsay reardon as boodle the mayor of orangetown and amber hassak as full bodies girlfriend moody
this is not a confirmed role but we actually got jaime lee curtis revealing her interest in
possibly playing dr correa chopper's parental figure and maybe a season 2 if there ends up
being one to which matt owens responded my dms are open the revealed cast has grown
exponentially since the first casting announcement and i'm sure will continue to grow as time passes
eventually i'm definitely going to make a more in-depth analysis of each of these individual
actors that way you guys have a better idea of how they carry themselves and how they might portray
these specific roles so make sure you guys subscribe and hit that notification bell so
you don't miss out on that video we have a pretty decent idea of what the one piece live action is
going to look like based on the vast amount of set leaks that we've gotten over the past six
or seven months and although we haven't seen the main cast and their official costumes yet we have
gotten many different images that show us how they are planning to bring this world to life we have
visuals of the going mary alvida ship shanks's ship garp ship and even some unidentifiable ships
that i'm sure will look awesome the baratier is also showing to us an even greater detail in that
video we got from netflix's geek week where we can actually see the construction of the ship
happening over a huge time lapse the concept art in that video gives us some really cool visuals
on what these different ships could look like once the series is finished some of my favorite
set leaks though are the ones we got of logtown we can see the setup of the execution platform where
roger is executed and luffy is almost executed at the end of the season there's also these really
cool little easter eggs all throughout low town like these little signs by the world economic
news post big news morrigan's news outlet which say like hero garp defeats gold roger which is
definitely propaganda by the world government thank you guys for helping me out with figuring
out what w-e-n-p stands for in one of the last update videos because i was like i had no idea
what that means the only costume leaks that we've gotten so far are those of the navy outfits that
we can see in some city maybe orange town or the g5 base but we still have yet to see any other
characters in their respective costumes there's a lot of very prominent figures in the film industry
that are working on the series one of them being mark jobs who directed the first two episodes
of the season he's known for working on a variety of very popular different series such as marvel's
daredevil the witcher marvel's punisher and even hannibal filming for the first two episodes ended
all the way back in may 7th it's unknown which directors are working on the series currently
but two other rumor directors are tim salthum who worked on bates motel and emma sullivan who worked
on doctor who 2020. the one piece live action has been in its filming stage for just over 100 days
and it is predicted that filming will end sometime in july or august an insider on the show clarified
that there is still a lot of work to do with production post-production etc and to not expect a
release until late 2023. i did an entire breakdown on when you can expect the one piece live action
to be released and why along with the different stages that these things go through before they
reach a final product if you guys are interested in checking it out go ahead and click the card at
the top right hand side of the screen according to the president of south africa cyril ramaphosa
netflix's one piece is the largest production in the continent of south africa he actually visited
the set personally which i think is really [ __ ] cool the series is currently filming
under the code name project panda which is a reference to panda man a secret one piece
character oda likes to hide in scenes with a bunch of different characters but in march of
2021 steve mayeda the other co-showrunner of the series released this codename project roger so i
don't really know maybe the code names differ from episode to episode a survey conducted by
the fandom to assess expectations for the one piece live action actually turned up with some
really promising results showing that a majority of the fans 62 to be exact voted a seven or higher
on their expectation for the series which i thought is very promising i personally put
an eight because you know i'm excited taz skyler sanji's actor has been showing a lot of commitment
to the role by training his body and martial arts through taekwondo and kickboxing as well
as learning different food techniques and honing his skills as a chef some of the other main cast
members are doing the same thing like anaki godoy really trying to show his commitment to learning
about one piece and luffy as a character he's made it very clear that he's been familiarizing
himself with the character of luffy and doing his due diligence by researching the show
and also mckenyu's seemingly being absent from virtually all of the social media promotion is
very fitting seeing how zoro seems to get lost all the time social media posts by the various cast
members have really shown how much effort they're putting into engaging with the community and truly
embodying the characters that they've been chosen to represent it's been really fun seeing the cast
together and just having a good time in south africa which i'm sure is increasing morale on
the set and the fact that they've been so socially open about their commitment to the series really
increases my excitement for the finished product as most of you probably know oda is currently
taking a one month hiatus from drawing the manga in order to work on the upcoming one piece film
red as well as travel to south africa to visit the set of the one piece live action personally which
i'm sure is really cool for the people working on the series he stated that he
actually wanted to visit earlier but couldn't do to covet restrictions and i can't imagine
how frustrating that all must have been for the different people working on the show
oof but i'm really happy to see everything finally come together after these like four
or five years of speculation on how it would turn out in the end i'm still monitoring my
expectations but i can't help but be really excited for the official release so i tried
to condense all of the information that i've gathered over the past eight months into a
single video but of course i probably missed one or two things here or there if you guys noticed
that i missed something feel free to comment and let me know and i will include all of your
guys's additional information into my own pinned comment as well as any additional updates we get
in the future if the adaptation is successful i think one thing that we can definitely expect
is more seasons i made an entire list breaking down what future seasons of the one piece live
action could look like so if you want to check that out definitely click this video right here