One Piece: Live Action Director Talks About The Difficulties Of Adapting The Work Of Eiichiro Oda – THE USA PRINT

When analyzing the history of anime and manga in Japan, it is clear that Eiichiro Oda created a spectacular and very powerful legacy with one piece. The story soon became a worldwide phenomenon and has remained one of the public’s favorite titles despite its length. The fact that Netflix successfully adapted this work cannot be taken lightly, since its previous attempts did not turn out well. Now, fans want to know all the details about One Piece- 90% and the director Marc Jobst explained in a recent interview how he came to the project and why he has to thank the series of Luke Cage- 96%.

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What is ‘One Piece’ about?

Oda created a fairly large world using his taste for pirate stories as a pretext. However, what makes it so special one piece It’s not just how well the characters are written, but also the social message and political critique behind the initial premise. The manga, whose plot is maintained quite well in the adaptation, introduces us to Luffy, a young man who wants to obtain the greatest treasure in history to become the new king of pirates. To do this, he must build a strong, determined and loyal crew, as well as having to fight against the navy that hates his lifestyle and other dangerous pirates with ambitions of their own.

The series starring Inaki Godoy, Mackenyu, Emily Rudd, Morgan Davies, Jacob Gibson and taz skylarbasically covers the start of the anime where we learn about the complicated past of the protagonists and what they plan to do with their future now that they are part of Luffy’s crew, so there are still many adventures and villains to discover.

Despite fans spending a lot of time fearing the worst, the Netflix adaptation did very well among the insiders and not-so-insiders, and is already the most-watched series on the platform right now. Breaking a curse of years, one piece it seems to have a bright future if the company decides to green light the production of more episodes, something that seems really likely considering its popularity and the high budget they invested for the filming.

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Various factors made ‘One Piece’ a success on Netflix

Now what one piece It’s quite a sensation, there’s a lot to analyze about adaptation. To begin with, fans agree that the great commitment and passion of the protagonists is essential for the premise to work. Similarly, while some changes have been frowned upon, most feel they were necessary and can be well justified for the future of the story. Of course, the intervention of Eiichiro Oda was essential to keep things in order, but also the alliance that was formed behind the scenes between the creators and the directors, especially Marc Jobstwho handled the canon-establishing first two episodes.

In interview with The Hollywood ReporterJobst spoke about how he came to the project and his relationship with matt owensco-showrunner of the series:

Matt Owens, who is the co-showrunner. I shot an episode of him for Luke Cage and it was a really lovely episode. It had all the signature Luke Cage action sequences, but he always had a lovely touch of humor and warmth in his writing, and I really enjoyed that. So I dove into it when I filmed that episode, and I loved working with Matt. Out of the blue, I got this phone call asking if I’d be interested in coming over to talk about the filming of One Piece. And what Matt[Owens]told me was that part of the fact that I leaned into some of that warmth and humor[in his Luke Cage episode]was what made him think of me for One Piece.

The director also acknowledged several challenges in the adaptation, but it was clear to everyone involved that fans had to first and foremost become attached to the characters for everything else to work:

It was really about making the transition from two-dimensional drawings on a sheet of paper where your characters have no limits to three-dimensional warm-blooded human beings who are limited by their own bodies. There are certain things you can see in the manga that the human body simply can’t do. Now you can do it with CGI, but you have to believe it. You have to bring your audience with you. And one of the things that we all agreed on, as Steve and Matt’s scripts show, is that we had to scale up the characters. We had to give them a full emotional life with a backstory that mattered to us. We had to know what they wanted and where they were trying to get to. So we had to give the audience a story that they could recognize and identify with.

Although the director did not know much about the anime and manga, the live action scripts were enough for him to understand that, despite the darkness of some story arcs, the story of one piece it is emotional, moving and very optimistic, which they took as a starting point to establish the creation of this world.

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