The producers of Netflix’s surprisingly well-liked One Piece live-action sequence say scripts for a possible second season are finished and the present might return on the streamer as early as subsequent 12 months.
In an interview with Selection, Marty Adelstein, the CEO of Tomorrow Studios (the oldsters who made the One Piece live-action sequence in addition to Netflix’s swiftly canceled Cowboy Bebop live-action sequence) confirmed that, “We’ve obtained scripts prepared.” The caveat, nevertheless, is that manufacturing of a potential second season of the One Piece live-action sequence can’t begin till Hollywood’s SAG-AFTRA strike is resolved.
“Realistically, hopefully, a 12 months away, if we transfer in a short time, and that could be a risk,” Becky Clements, president of Tomorrow Studios, instructed Selection. “Someplace between a 12 months and 18 months, we could possibly be prepared for air.”
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A trustworthy and charming live-action anime adaptation, the Netflix sequence has turn into one thing of an anomaly within the anime group since its August 31 premiere: a uncommon success story. It debuted because the high present on the streamer with 18.5 million views—a feat Clements says “exceeded” Netflix’s expectations.
“I feel [Netflix is] taking a look at numerous conditions about what number of episodes they do, do they break them up?” Adelstein stated. “I feel they’re making an attempt to determine that out this week. I think we’ll hear from them within the subsequent week to 2 weeks. There appears to be a giant impetus to maintain this going and to provide you with a long-term technique. So we’re simply ready for that.”
Adelstein instructed Selection {that a} potential second season of Netflix’s One Piece sequence must broaden its viewers past simply present followers of the sequence, a course of he stated the primary season had already began.
“We’re getting a number of household viewing and that’s actually the important thing, is to usher in the non-fans and individuals who aren’t conscious of the IP as a result of the present stands by itself and also you get folks to look at it and folks actually find it irresistible,” Adelstein stated.
In our assessment of Netflix’s One Piece, we stated the present “is among the uncommon well-made live-action anime diversifications” that’s “stuffed with coronary heart, from its vibrant set and wardrobe designs to the disarmingly charming found-family dynamic that the live-action crew so successfully exudes.”