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Building the World of Netflix’s Action Series One Piece
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9/1/2023
Here's your behind the scenes look at the Netflix action-comedy series One Piece Season 1, created by Eiichiro Oda.
One Piece’s Cast:
Emily Rudd, Inaki Godoy, Machenyu, Peter Gadiot and MiKinley Belcher III
Stream One Piece Season 1 now on Netflix
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00:00
[MUSIC PLAYING]
00:02
The one piece live action, we're all putting our heart
00:06
and passion into this.
00:07
We're going to need a real pirate ship
00:09
or we'll have to straw hat crew.
00:11
Oda sensei has infinite ideas, making the manga still
00:15
so popular after so many years.
00:18
It's such an expansive world that people
00:21
are absolutely die hard for.
00:24
Getting a chance to bring that story to life,
00:27
it's absolutely amazing.
00:29
Matt, the show runner, he's a super fan.
00:31
Who better to make an adaptation than a super fan?
00:35
Action.
00:36
I've been a massive fan of one piece for years and years.
00:39
Having a built in fan base is a phenomenal thing.
00:42
And that also comes with a lot of responsibility
00:45
to get it right.
00:47
With every aspect of this, we use the manga
00:50
created by Oda sensei, his designs.
00:53
That's always our North Star.
00:54
The series has been running for 25 years.
00:56
And we know a lot about these characters
00:58
and about the world.
01:00
So it's given us the opportunity to throw in a lot
01:02
of Easter eggs for fans.
01:04
Let's go.
01:05
Right.
01:05
It's a really tricky balancing act,
01:07
trying to figure out what you're going to put in
01:09
and what you're going to leave out.
01:11
The hardest part was finding the right story
01:13
arcs and emotional arcs for characters
01:15
that would make for a wonderful season of television.
01:18
I don't want to be a marine.
01:20
I'm a pirate.
01:21
A big challenge was figuring out how to include backstory.
01:24
These backstories are all in the manga.
01:26
And we made a decision early on to parcel it out and tie
01:29
it into present day story.
01:31
We went by Oda-san's SBS chapter notes,
01:34
where he answers fan questions at the end
01:36
of chapters in the manga.
01:37
It's full of character backstories
01:39
and birthdates and heights.
01:40
These are so good.
01:41
Their favorite foods and things like that.
01:42
So we scoured those and thought that brought
01:44
a lot of wonderful emotional grounding with the characters.
01:47
What's been really great is Oda sensei and his team
01:50
have been with us the entire time.
01:52
Getting to talk with him is one of my favorite experiences
01:55
about this.
01:55
And that collaboration, I think, has
01:58
birthed something really special.
02:00
Hey, Sorrow, what you going to wear?
02:02
Something black.
02:05
The most challenging thing, translating the page
02:08
to the screen, was bringing the color and the life
02:11
into our characters without it looking like a cosplay.
02:15
The manga's black and white.
02:16
And so Oda's Color Walk became our Bible.
02:19
Color Walk gave us a very unique opportunity
02:22
to see the Straw Hat characters in different environments,
02:26
in different costumes.
02:27
It gave me the opportunity to introduce texture
02:30
and tailoring without in any way compromising
02:34
the look of the manga.
02:35
Our costume design is absolutely incredible.
02:38
We have a lot of nods to things ultimate fans would know.
02:43
One of the things that we thought
02:44
would make the show feel more real
02:45
is if we did as much as we could in camera.
02:47
It was a conscious choice to use prosthetics
02:49
as much as possible, particularly on the fishmen.
02:52
With prosthetics, one of the trickiest things
02:54
was to try and keep all the designs as close as possible
02:57
to honor Mr. Oda's work and then bring something
02:59
to screen that looks like it could live in the real world.
03:03
It's trying to find the middle ground between both
03:05
of the mediums.
03:06
And when we do have an idea to tweak or change something,
03:09
it's always a conversation with Oda sensei and his team.
03:12
Snail Phone being a perfect example,
03:13
we did snail phones that you have in the manga.
03:16
And then the prop crew came up with tiny snail phones
03:18
that fit in your ear like a Bluetooth.
03:19
Props then designed a snail megaphone
03:21
that amplifies the voice across the water.
03:23
Lower your sails and submit to my authority.
03:26
The attention to detail that everyone has
03:29
and just the talent of our individual departments,
03:31
it's incredible.
03:32
I think we were really successful in being
03:34
able to bring One Piece into a new medium
03:36
and show just how special it is and why so many people
03:39
all over the world love this series so much.
03:41
To the best crew sailing on the sea, and to our victory!
03:48
It's been a pleasure to be a part of this journey.
03:50
It's such a creative world, so many interesting characters.
03:54
I was truly overwhelmed when I saw it.
03:56
And I can't wait for the fans to see it too.
03:58
You're my captain, Luffy, from now until the end.
04:03
The spirit of One Piece is so strong in this.
04:07
It is such a privilege to work on this show
04:10
for something really wonderful and what Oda-san has created.
04:12
Truly, this is his sandbox, and we're just playing in it.
04:16
Next stop, the Grand Line!
04:18
[MUSIC PLAYING]
04:21
[MUSIC PLAYING]
04:24
(dramatic music)
04:27
(dramatic music)
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