Netflix Producers Confirm ‘One Piece’ Season 2 News, Reveals Plans for 6 Seasons After the Live Action Success
The live-action adaptation of Eiichiro Oda’s best-selling manga, One Piece witnessed its successful second week at the leading streaming platform Netflix. The series reserved a top spot in the list of Netflix’s Top 10 shows. It has already broken multiple records and even went on to become the most successful live-action series in the category of anime across the world.
The series chronicles the journey of Luffy, who aspires to become the King of the pirates along with his friends. After the great audience reception of the live-action One Piece, the producers of the series have dropped a major update on the second season of the live-action One Piece series.
One Piece Producers Provide A Major Update On Its Second Season
During an interview with the reputed media outlet Deadline, the producer duo Marty Adelstein and Becky Clements spoke about the possibility of the second season of the live-action One Piece series. While talking about the potentiality of the second season, Marty Adelstein pointed out
“We have hopes for 12 seasons, there’s so much material.”
Producer Becky Clements added-
“We’re over 1,080 chapters at this point in the manga. We have plans with Matt Owens for how we would break multiple seasons, and I think even if we did six seasons, we would probably only use up half of the chapters of the manga. It really could go on and on and on.”
While talking about the upcoming season, Becky Clements further explained-
Clements: “Everything we do is in concert with Netflix, [manga publisher] Shueisha and Oda-san, they are a part of that conversation. We’ve definitely had more thorough conversations about what we would do with Season 2 should we have the opportunity, and then less extensive conversations about where we would go for season three to six.”
One Piece producer Becky Clements even mentioned that the series comprises the unified parts of Manga that just cannot be eliminated. She said-
Clements: “The one thing I would say, we’re all unified in the parts of the manga that you just absolutely cannot eliminate, and that’s our guiding principle, the stories that we know and the characters that we know are important to the fans. So that really is the start in breaking future seasons. It will require a lot of conversations, but we feel lucky to have the roadmap.”
However, the second season of One Piece has not been given the green signal, but looking at the successful run of the first season on the streaming giant Netflix. it has been speculated that the fans are desperately waiting for the second season.
One Piece Producers Talk About The Production Challenges In Season One
During an interview with Deadline, the producer duo of the live-action One Piece series was asked about the biggest production challenge they faced during the filming of season one. Becky Clements spoke about the task of creating a pirate world. She said-
“The challenges were obviously scope, how do we create a pirate world with characters, with special effects and also keep it grounded. We spent a lot of time with Marc Jobst, the director, with our production designer, our producer Chris Symes, really focusing on how do we make it feel real and grounded in the builds, the textures, the VFX, the costumes.”
While talking about the crew she mentioned-
“The crew in South Africa is incredible. We knew we were going to shoot there because Chris Symes, our executive producer, produced Black Sails, and he built many pirate ships for that series. There were a couple of them in place already that we knew we would have an advantage and be able to refurbish.”
According to the producer, the biggest challenge revolved around the weather of the South African location, where the filming took place. Becky Clements said-
“One of the challenges you have in South Africa is the weather, you can shoot best at a certain time of year so that always comes into play, and even the weather cooperated, which isn’t always the case. So we had many challenges, but we had the most professional and awe-inspiring team there that just helped us pull it off.”
Season one of the live-action One Piece is currently available on Netflix.
Source: Deadline
