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NEWS: One Piece Manga Gets Live-Action Hollywood TV Show

I think the main reason is because it's a show about pirates. They've also practically exhausted all the well-known superheroes that aren't tied up in rights and need something else to adapt.

If they follow the story from the beginning it could be a while before they even get to Sanji. The first season will likely only deal with Luffy, Zoro, Usopp, Nami, Robin and Sanji, if that. I would also expect the first season would only deal with the East Blue.

Chopper would require a lot of animation so they would probably want to avoid him at first. Frankie could have to change his outfit, although they would likely take some time getting to him. I wouldn't expect him to be in the first season. Brook could also be difficult and might be shown in human form. But he also wouldn't show up until later.

"NO! I want this to be adapted in animated form only?"

One Piece is waaay too cartoon-y to ever work in live-action without it looking ridiculous.

I know One Piece hasn't fully invade America yet but it's already the best-selling manga of all time. This is so unnecessary!

Who thought that this was good idea!?!?!? Have they learned nothing about how adapting manga/anime into live-action never works and espexially if they're battle shonens!?!?!

Just don't be bad. No need for OP to have a rough time of it in the west.

A JoJo live action series would have worked better. Especially if it is in the hands of Hollywood.

Um...

https://funko.com/products/pop-animation-one-piece-luffy

They also have Ace, Chopper and Law.

Hollywood adapted The Mask and Super Mario Bros. It shouldn't be that complicated?

Take yourself back to the 1880s where the KKK is thriving and the African American community lives in fear. The African Americans don't fear the KKK simply because they beat, rape, and kill them. No. They fear the KKK because the KKK eats them. They are the aptly named man-eaters, a kind of mix between werewolves and vampires. They consume human flesh, can shapeshift into various forms, and are practically immortal. Only one man, an ex-heavyweight boxer named Victor Freeman, dares to stand up to them. Equipped with a small arsenal and a set of modified brass knuckles, can our hero defend his people and avenge his past?

The Mask required animating ONE character really wacky on top of live-action. One Piece is literally an entire world full of fantastically weird-looking creatures,

If you're going to adapt a manga/anime for live-action, it may be better to pick something that lends itself to live-action a little better than f***ing ONE PIECE. Black Lagoon comes to mind. Gunsmith Cats. Even Baccano would make more sense.

Here is a lesser known 90s manga that could have some success.It's called "Blaster Knuckle". A series that is only 3 volumes long means it should not be stuck in development limbo.

Some of the pages comments include how it is basically a manga version of blaxpoitation movie and that it was a historically accurate depiction of 19th century American South.

One Piece has not yet had its own Monopoly board game, pinball machine, or Funko POP! figures. Metallica pulled that off recently.

leafy sea dragon wrote:

One Piece has not yet had its own Monopoly board game, pinball machine, or Funko POP! figures. Metallica pulled that off recently.

One Piece have all of that, they even have a 24-karat gold figs, you'd be surprised on how many OP merchandises out there in the wild and on how popular this property is, that's what Hollywood is aiming for, those $.

passer by wrote:

leafy sea dragon wrote: One Piece has not yet had its own Monopoly board game, pinball machine, or Funko POP! figures. Metallica pulled that off recently. One Piece have all of that, they even have a 24-karat gold figs, you'd be surprised on how many OP merchandises out there in the wild and on how popular this property is, that's what Hollywood is aiming for, those $.

While I have been shown the POP! figurines, the others, I know as a fact, do not exist, as I monitor recent releases of the other two pretty closely. For the latter, in particular, there has not been a release of an arcade-sized pinball machine of any anime property (the closest there's been is Godzilla, which was based on the 1996 movie--the only other Japanese franchises to have a pinball machine are Super Mario Bros., Street Fighter II, and Transformers the last of which is based on the Michael Bay movies).