Netflix’s One Piece Season 2 Scripts Are Achieved, Says Producer

The producers of Netflix’s surprisingly in style One Piece live-action sequence 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 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 received 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 yr away, if we transfer in a short time, and that could be a chance,” Becky Clements, president of Tomorrow Studios, informed Selection. “Someplace between a yr and 18 months, we may very well be prepared for air.”

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A trustworthy and charming live-action anime adaptation, the Netflix sequence has change into one thing of an anomaly within the anime neighborhood since its August 31 premiere: a uncommon success story. It debuted because the prime 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 attempting to determine that out this week. I believe we’ll hear from them within the subsequent week to 2 weeks. There appears to be an enormous impetus to maintain this going and to provide you with a long-term technique. So we’re simply ready for that.”

Adelstein informed 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 variety 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 individuals to observe it and folks actually find it irresistible,” Adelstein stated.

In our evaluation of Netflix’s One Piece, we stated the present “is likely one of 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.”