The producers of Netflix’s surprisingly standard One Piece live-action collection say scripts for a possible second season are accomplished and the present may return on the streamer as early as subsequent yr.
In an interview with Variety, Marty Adelstein, the CEO of Tomorrow Studios (the oldsters who made the One Piece live-action collection in addition to Netflix’s swiftly canceled Cowboy Bebop live-action collection) confirmed that, “We’ve acquired scripts prepared.” The caveat, nonetheless, is that manufacturing of a attainable second season of the One Piece live-action collection can’t begin till Hollywood’s SAG-AFTRA strike is resolved.
“Realistically, hopefully, a yr away, if we transfer in a short time, and that could be a chance,” Becky Clements, president of Tomorrow Studios, advised Selection. “Someplace between a yr and 18 months, we might be prepared for air.”
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A devoted and charming live-action anime adaptation, the Netflix collection 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 top show 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 mentioned. “I feel they’re making an attempt to determine that out this week. I believe 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 give you a long-term technique. So we’re simply ready for that.”
Adelstein advised Selection {that a} potential second season of Netflix’s One Piece collection must develop its viewers past simply present followers of the collection, a course of he mentioned the primary season had already began.
“We’re getting plenty 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 like it,” Adelstein mentioned.
In our evaluate of Netflix’s One Piece, we mentioned the present “is without doubt one of the uncommon well-made live-action anime variations” 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.”
