Netflix's Live-Action One Piece Series Is Coming In 2023 (theverge.com) 31
Netflix has confirmed that its live-action take on One Piece will be streaming in 2023. The Verge reports: That's about all we know so far; Netflix didn't give a specific date, though the company did show off a new poster for its adaptation of Eiichiro Oda's long-running pirate manga / anime. The adaptation was first announced back in 2020 and will be led by showrunners Matt Owens and Steven Maeda. The main cast includes the likes of Inaki Godoy as Luffy (who you can see the back of in the new poster), Mackenyu as Zoro, Emily Rudd as Nami, Jacob Romero Gibson as Usopp, and Taz Skylar as Sanji. The Verge notes that One Piece "follows some less-than-impressive live-action anime adaptations from Netflix, including a Death Note film and a Cowboy Bebop series that was canceled after one season."
Cowboy Bebop (Score:4, Interesting)
I liked Cowboy Bebop. It wasn't a complete clone of the original anime, but it was good anyway. Yeah some of the sets were a bit low budget, but I found the characters really interesting because they are far more like the anime versions than the English dub of the anime itself. They felt like what the author intended.
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I wanted to like it. I really did. But it never clicked for me. It just never left me with that "Oh gosh, I really need to binge the hell out of this!" feeling. I'm a huge fan of the original anime. Sad face.
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I liked Cowboy Bebop. It wasn't a complete clone of the original anime, but it was good anyway. Yeah some of the sets were a bit low budget, but I found the characters really interesting because they are far more like the anime versions than the English dub of the anime itself. They felt like what the author intended.
I can only assume you've never watched the original with subtitles (I've never listened to the American dub so I don't know how bad it is). The live action massacred the characters and completely misunderstood their motivations and emotional states. Apart from Ein.
It was truly awful and the characterisation was easily the worst aspect.
The "author" has just recently said that in his opinion the Netflix version is not Cowboy Bebop.
Re:Cowboy Bebop (Score:4, Informative)
Not only have I watched the original with subtitles, I speak Japanese.
As far as I know the author only commented in one Forbes interview, where he said he was initially not happy with it and then decided to get involved to improve it. Maybe you know of another interview, but if not then the very most you could take away from that is that he barely watched one early scene so isn't really in a position to judge the whole thing.
Anyway, regardless I liked it. It was far from perfect, it had pacing issues and a lot of other problems, but the acting was probably the best part.
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but the acting was probably the best part.
I agree. The problems were many but they were generally not in front of the camera.
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I liked it and I never like conversions. It's not perfect.
One WOULD think that a complete storyboard proven a success and even animated and polished would be the easiest best possible starting place imaginable!
yet we are proven wrong every time. Thing is, if you did it exactly it would be luck of many people aligning to have it come out the same... and then what would be the point? you already have it all done and proven. why such an obsession with putting in real people and tons of CG? the amount of CG
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The characters were good. The story wasn't bad either. But the show itself was rubbish. Really poor writing and direction. The materials that the characters had to work with (despite being different from the anime) was really poorly conveyed and poorly fleshed out. It suffered all the same problems of Justice League - character building was relegated to only a few lines in a script and hoping that some pretty graphics and concepts can carry it the rest of the way.
The biggest disservice was done to Faye, who
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The live action Cowboy Bebop was my first exposure and it was horrible. I then watched some of the originals and it was infinitely better, actually it was very good.
So, not a real movie then (Score:2)
:-)
Re: I can't wait (Score:2)
One Piece? (Score:2)
I can't think of many things that are less adaptable to live action than One Piece.
Besides that everyone has crazy superpowers, it's a series full of very weird body types and faces. There's anything from normal looking people, to tiny people, to enormous giants. One of the main characters is a shape-shifting reideer, and another is a skeleton.
This is going to take one huge special effects budget to make it look remotely good. So I'm very curious about how they're going to approach this one.
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Chopper won't be a problem since the first season is confined to the East Blue. Perhaps they are banking on it being super popular getting them a much larger budget.
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I can't think of many things that are less adaptable to live action than One Piece.
Besides that everyone has crazy superpowers, it's a series full of very weird body types and faces. There's anything from normal looking people, to tiny people, to enormous giants. One of the main characters is a shape-shifting reideer, and another is a skeleton.
This is going to take one huge special effects budget to make it look remotely good. So I'm very curious about how they're going to approach this one.
It doesn't take a huge special effects budget. They can just throw half of that out, adapt the other half, and they're done. The super-powers are not actually the point and are superfluous. The point is that everybody is fighting all these long, crazy battles at the extreme edge of their capabilities, having to dig deep and find a way through. If they can adapt that or not depends on the writers and producers, it has nothing to do with the special effects.
The big advantage that live action has here is that
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I can't believe with so much good anime out there they decided to pick this piece of crap. Seriously, pick something worth adapting. Eurika Seven, Fruits Basket, Zipang, Your Line In April, just to name a few. A World God Only Knows, Witch Hunter Robin, or even something goofy but fun like Paniponi Dash.
The horror! (Score:1)
Cancelled after first season (Score:2)
Oh goody, another show that they're going to cancel after 1 season
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So what? Not sure what the obsession is with having something run in perpetuity. If it's well written I'd prefer it last for one season rather than going out of its way to shoehorn unfinished plot points in an effort to keep viewership until the accountant says stop.
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So you would rather it just not be finished, that's what happens when stuff is cancelled the first season.
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So you would rather it just not be finished, that's what happens when stuff is cancelled the first season.
No. I'd rather someone plan for something to have one season. You understand the concept of a season right? Kind of like Cowboy Bebop. It had a start, a middle and an end. Season done. Whether season 2 is cancelled or not should be irrelevant for anyone other than those desperate to ingest a never ending stream of the same story.
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... shoehorn unfinished plot points in an effort to keep viewership until the accountant says stop.
Ok, now look up how many episodes the original has that they could remake.
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We've covered the size of One Piece here before when it was turned into the longest book ever https://www.smithsonianmag.com... [smithsonianmag.com]
But that is completely missing the point. Netflix didn't announce they will faithfully adapt the entirety of One Piece, and there's no reason you can't write a single season with a cohesive story that has a start a middle and an end.
Like all good sci-fi series (Score:2)
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Be-bop was the 1st good conversion I've seen from a cartoon. They did almost a scene by scene recreation of the 1st episode! It moved quickly into the larger story arc but otherwise was doing pretty well.
I think it was good enough for anti-cartoon people to be exposed to it and not hate it.
Then they canceled it. You can't expect something to compete with an old established success. Even if they did great the fans of the old one probably still prefer to go watch that again than the new one. I know I still
Emily's Gonna Need Some Prosthetics. (Score:2)
Not exactly a barrier. That's one thing (two?) that Hollywood has mastered.
It's just gonna get cancelled (Score:1)
I fully expect to hear this show is cancelled after one or two seasons. Not because it's a bad show, but because Neflix can't seem to run many of its shows through a complete arc these days. It's to the point where I won't bother with Netflix series anymore.
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I fully expect to hear this show is cancelled after one or two seasons. Not because it's a bad show, but because Neflix can't seem to run many of its shows through a complete arc these days. It's to the point where I won't bother with Netflix series anymore.
They don't cancel them based on if they're "good" or "bad," they cancel them based on if they're popular. Perhaps their producers suck at making things that are popular?
I don't use netflix so I don't have an opinion on if their shows are good or not, but if we assume that you're right and they're cancelling good shows, maybe their producers suck and are prioritizing "goodness" over "profit?" One is their job, the other isn't...
Nope (Score:2)