The filming of the live action of One Piece has begun, announced Emily Rudd (the interpreter of Nami) through her Instagram account :
Day 1 of filming – Nami pic.twitter.com/eJI7D6WMws
— ONE PIECE NETFLIX FAN (@OP_Netflix_Fan) February 1, 2022
The Day of the Beginning… pic.twitter.com/yvwy03874j
— Steven Maeda (@stevemaeda) January 31, 2022
There’s no place like home. pic.twitter.com/gpjeWJPnSN
— Steven Maeda (@stevemaeda) January 31, 2022
There is a lot of curiosity around this show. Who knows if an official photo of the cast in costume will be released in the coming days, or if photos from the set will pop up first.
Cast and staff:
The Straw Hat crew consists of: Iñaki Godoy (Monkey D. Luffy), Mackenyu (Roronoa Zoro), Emily Rudd (Nami), Jacob Romero Gibson (Usopp) and Taz Skylar (Sanji).
Steven Maeda (Lost, The X-Files) covers the role of showrunner, writer and executive producer. The screenplay also has Matt Owens (Agents of SHIELD, Luke Cage) who also covers the role of executive producer.
Marty Adelstein and Becky Clements of Tomorrow Studios (Cowboy Bebop, Snowpiercer, Hanna) are executive producers alongside Eiichiro Oda .
ROMANCE DAWN
The title of the first episode of the live action series is Romance Dawn .
Oda wrote two separate stories with this title published in the 1996 Weekly Shonen Jump summer special and in the magazine’s 1996 issue 41.
They were later included on One Piece Red and the short story volume WANTED! both published by Star Comics . The third version of Romance Dawn is the first chapter of the One Piece manga published exactly one year after the first version.
The protagonist of both the first two versions is a pirate named Monkey D. Luffy, but the story and the characters are very different from each other.
In 2008, the first version was used as the basis for a 33-minute special titled One Piece Romance Dawn Story , for the Jump Super Anime Tour 08 event . A new special that aired in 2019 adapted the second version.
The One Piece live action series, produced by Tomorrow Studios (live action Cowboy Bebop), consists of 10 episodes .