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Hit Manga "One Piece" Getting Live-Action TV Show from Prison Break producer

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zulux21

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LotusHD said:
Just doing "simple" stuff like making Luffy not made of rubber or making Zoro only use two swords max is exactly why this should never happen. The fact that you had to try...
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Didn't say it should happen, just am spitballing how they would even do this on a tv budget as I can't even think of a way to keep completely true to one piece even with a trillion dollar budget in live action. luffy would be super creepy in live action in general
SatoAilDarko said:
This is inherently the reason why this is one of the worst adaptations ever.

The main character, face of the franchise, is made of rubber. His entire fighting style (as well as several gags) revolve around this.

There is no way that doesn't look horrible on a television budget.
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his fighting style is, but the main story outside of skypeia isn't really all that invested in luffy's rubberness.

again not saying it will look good just trying to figure out how you even think you can do this.
 
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HStallion

Now what's the next step in your master plan?
zulux21 said:
Didn't say it should happen, just am spitballing how they would even do this on a tv budget as I can't even think of a way to keep completely true to one piece even with a trillion dollar budget in live action. luffy would be super creepy in live action in general


his fighting style is, but the main story outside of skypeia isn't really all that invested in luffy's rubberness.

again not saying it will look good just trying to figure out how you even think you can do this.
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Its not like stuff like Gear Fourth would translate well either.
 
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HStallion

Now what's the next step in your master plan?
DNAbro said:
How much CGI do you need to make this not look like shit?
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A ton, far more than you see in Game of Thrones unless they get real fucking clever and sneaky with the camera work or just don't have characters using powers except for the money shot.;
 
Subpar Spatula

Subpar Spatula

Banned
There's only 3 animes that actually need live action:

Gundam
Monster
Darker than Black

The rest can go back to the crunchyroll or funimation bin where they belong.

Also to echo


Why
 
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Hopeford

Member
I want to see a Brazilian Luffy because that's what Oda said he'd be in the real world, and also because I can totally see that. Like, personal bias aside, he basically huheuha's through life. That's like his MO.

...Personal bias talking here, but I'd love to see that.
 
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HStallion

Now what's the next step in your master plan?
Subpar Spatula said:
There's only 3 animes that actually need live action:

Gundam
Monster
Darker than Black

The rest can go back to the crunchyroll or funimation bin where they belong.

Also to echo


Why
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There are a ton of animes that could easily work like Full Metal Alchemist. One Piece is not one of them
 
G

Gnome

Member
BECK would make a fantastic fucking show. The chapters are like 80 pages or more each, one or two chapters is functionally one 45 minute episode.
 
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Hopeford

Member
Also yeah, on a more serious note - I don't think this can work without some serious rewriting efforts, to the point it's more "based on" than an actual adaptation. At the same time, I can't lie. I'm gonna watch the hell out of this.
 
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Ezalc

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Galactic Specter said:
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Still laugh that Usopp is just "africa" when all the others get like countries and not continents.

It'd be great if casting was actually according to these nationalities which is what Oda said they would be if they were from our world.

It won't happen, but it'd be interesting.

Also, bet this is going to be awful lol.
 
TissueBox

TissueBox

Member
If they decide to focus primarily on the dramatic and comic qualities and character development + world building, well, yeah it could be a good show, with solid writing and performances behind it.

But hypothetically speaking, to try to fully adapt OP as a western live action show, I don't think there's ever been a show like that before, has there? With action, adventure, and crazy special effects that wasn't just campy or mostly schlock on the grand scope of something like OP?

Whatever the case, I'm gum-gum hoping for something at least entertainingly bad. >_<
 
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Ray Down

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Oda says to the live-adaptation staffs, "Do not betray ONE PIECE fans who have been supporting us for 20 years." He also says, "Some people may be worried about this project, but don't miss it!"
 
Vlaphor

Vlaphor

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What a lot of people here are thinking is that they'll be going full tilt all at once and I don't necessarily see that happening, for a couple of reasons. One is budget of course, and two is world building. Now, if I were going to make One Piece a live action series, season one would just be Luffy, Nami, Zorro, and Usopp. You don't need the entire Straw Hat all at once, you take time to build up the characters before introducing new ones, then if the first seasons is a big enough hit, then you can get a larger budget for further seasons, where you dole out the additional characters piece by piece, not all at once.

That's how'd I do it anyway...also, I'd make sure that Nami is later Nami, for her large...character.
 
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SatoAilDarko

Member
Ray Down said:
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Oda says to the live-adaptation staffs, "Do not betray ONE PIECE fans who have been supporting us for 20 years." He also says, "Some people may be worried about this project, but don't miss it!"
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This may be the first time I'm not buying what Oda is saying at all.
 
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Lightning_Roller

Banned
Ray Down said:
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Oda says to the live-adaptation staffs, "Do not betray ONE PIECE fans who have been supporting us for 20 years." He also says, "Some people may be worried about this project, but don't miss it!"
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Okay, I'm gonna make sure I miss it and completely forget it exists. Because my god the alternative......
 
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MrSaturn99

Member
Ray Down said:
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Oda says to the live-adaptation staffs, "Do not betray ONE PIECE fans who have been supporting us for 20 years." He also says, "Some people may be worried about this project, but don't miss it!"
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not this time oda

I'm sorry

I'm totally watching it
 
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Order

Member
Ray Down said:
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Oda says to the live-adaptation staffs, "Do not betray ONE PIECE fans who have been supporting us for 20 years." He also says, "Some people may be worried about this project, but don't miss it!"
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"What does that say?"
"I think it says we can do whatever"
"Ah, gotcha."
 
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zulux21

Member
Subpar Spatula said:
Actually no. Just because you feel it's a good fit doesn't make it so. FMA:B is bogged down by the kids.


Season 1 is legit good with a good concept. It lends itself to smaller budget + action and a bit of procedural.
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eh so far the live action movie has looked pretty solid for FMA.
 
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The Dink

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This...this is not a good idea.

The budget required to realize the world of One Piece in live action would need Marvel Cinematic Universe level money. Not to mention it's not nearly popular enough in the West to warrant a live-action anything. Casting is going to be a nightmare considering all the white-washing that's happened in live-action anime adaptions in the past.

This is going to be a terrible, terrible mess. I'm there day one.
 
Subpar Spatula

Subpar Spatula

Banned
HStallion said:
Uh ok? So because you don't like it it wouldn't make an easily adaptable property?
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I liked it. It's not easily adaptable because the characters themself don't make it marketable with the budget it requires. Same with Hunter X Hunter.

There's a reason why there's very little kid led shows that have a high budget: they don't work and the more CGI you add the more jank it looks especially with certain feats characters make.
 
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HStallion

Now what's the next step in your master plan?
Subpar Spatula said:
I liked it. It's not easily adaptable because the characters themself don't make it marketable with the budget it requires. Same with Hunter X Hunter.

There's a reason why there's very little kid led shows that have a high budget: they don't work and the more CGI you add the more jank it looks.
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They don't even have to be kids. Al is a suit of armor the entire show and you can easily make Ed a teenager or even an adult in their late teens, early 20's.
 
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RedBoot

Member
mrmickfran said:
How the fuck would they make Whitebeard or Kaido work?

Or even the giants? All cgi?
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Whitebeard's easy. Normal sized guy, have him punch air and add the cracking VFX with CGI. Also he'll only do it one or twice an episode.

(Now, if you're asking how we show Marineford split into pieces, well...he won't do that)

Kaido is also just a big dude. We don't know the extent of his powers yet anyway.

Giants are easy. Green screens, super imposing, etc.
 
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EMT0

Banned
Reddit's thoughts on black people in One Piece

So there's two parts to this (IIRC): the first is that Oda is by his own admission 'lazy' when it comes to drawing certain things. The biggest and most obvious/frustrating omission is women; he draws them all the same and even has a short how-to guide for how he designs women(it's tits and a triangle waste smh). The second argument is (arguably) world building. Almost everyone is some shade of brown or tan, with people like Nami and Sanji largely being complete anomalies. Pale people are rare or about as rare as people that share features associated with black people. And we've never seen racism between humans. One Piece instead dedicates a lot of effort into portraying the wrongness of discrimination/prejudice of humans towards other human-like groups such as Fishmen/Mermaids, Giants, and Dwarfs. Now what is pretty obvious and a widely supported opinion via One Piece's fans, is that you can clearly see features associated with black people in One Piece pretty frequently. Sometimes fans consider them black(Aokiji), sometimes they don't(Usopp). Some commonly listed examples are

Aokiji:
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Mr.1/Daz Bones:
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Usopp:
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Brook(pre-death):
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Shiryu:
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Without giving away a whole lot of surprises and speculation involving even more plot spoilers deep into the series, you should just take at face value that humanity is largely at peace within itself on the basis of race and everybody banged everybody to the point where race stopped being a point of distinction between people. Instead, humanity as a whole continued to demonstrate it's need to express its inferiority complex towards other people via discriminating against them. One Piece is unique in that you can make an argument for anybody playing just about anybody regardless of their race. Black Luffy? Sure. White Luffy? Why not. Hispanic Luffy? Okay. Asian Luffy? Yep. Luffy's just a nondescript tan teen with a big smile on his face.

Don't take this post to mean One Piece is perfect however. It's original portrayal of a dark skinned person was awful(it was posted earlier in the thread). Robin was retconned from being tan-skinned to being pale(yeah yeah, I know in the manga she was pale with a hint of a tan, but people largely took Robin to look like this:

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instead of this):
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Every princess ever has porcelain pale skin. Rebecca? Yep. Hirahoshi? Yep. Nefertari 'I-live-in-the-middle-of-a-desert' Vivi? Yep. Shit's dumb. Skin tones darker than Gedatsu seemingly don't exist either. Black hair is always portrayed a solid black mess(see: Aokiji) rather than having any effort put into drawing texture or even just more detailed. On that last point there's an argument that a lot of things in One Piece suffer from that due to Oda being a damn machine. (warning: spoilers). ANYWAYS. My point is that quality aside, I wouldn't sweat the race or ethnicity of any actors unless it's obvious they're doing something dumb like making 2/3rds of the cast white people.
 
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SalvaPot

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Vlaphor said:
What a lot of people here are thinking is that they'll be going full tilt all at once and I don't necessarily see that happening, for a couple of reasons. One is budget of course, and two is world building. Now, if I were going to make One Piece a live action series, season one would just be Luffy, Nami, Zorro, and Usopp. You don't need the entire Straw Hat all at once, you take time to build up the characters before introducing new ones, then if the first seasons is a big enough hit, then you can get a larger budget for further seasons, where you dole out the additional characters piece by piece, not all at once.

That's how'd I do it anyway...also, I'd make sure that Nami is later Nami, for her large...character.
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You can adapt the whole East Blue arc in a 13 episodes season I think. The season finale is Laboon.

neoanarch said:
Are you thinking 20th Century Boys?
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I was, sorry. Fuck I just remembered HBO had plans for a Monster live action with Guillermo del Toro as Director, now I am sad again.
 
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