Netflix has released a three-minute official trailer for its upcoming One Piece live-action series, which is coming to the streaming service on August 31.
One Piece is a co-production with Tomorrow Studios (who also produced Netflix’s panned Cowboy Bebop live-action show and series like Snowpiercer and Let The Right One In). Steven Maeda (Pan Am) and Matt Owens (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Luke Cage writer) are the showrunners, with Owens also serving as scriptwriter.
The cast members include:
• Iñaki Godoy as Luffy
• Mackenyu as Roronoa Zoro
• Emily Rudd as Nami
• Jacob Romero Gibson as Usopp
• Taz Skylar as Sanji
• Peter Gadiot as Shanks
• Morgan Davies as Koby
• Alexander Maniatis as Klahadore
• Steven Ward as Mihawk
• Craig Fairbrass as Chef Zeff
• Langley Kirkwood as Captain Morgan
• Celeste Loots as Kaya
• Chioma Umeala as Nojiko
The Shueisha-published One Piece manga by Eiichirou Oda began in 1997 and has 106 tankoubon volumes as of June 2023. The manga is serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump and published under the Jump Comics label. VIZ Media describes the plot as:
As a child, Monkey D. Luffy was inspired to become a pirate by listening to the tales of the buccaneer “Red-Haired” Shanks. But his life changed when Luffy accidentally ate the Gum-Gum Devil Fruit and gained the power to stretch like rubber…at the cost of never being able to swim again! Years later, still vowing to become the king of the pirates, Luffy sets out on his adventure…one guy alone in a rowboat, in search of the legendary “One Piece,” said to be the greatest treasure in the world…
The manga has inspired a 1999 Production I.G-produced OVA and a long-running Toei Animation-produced TV series that began in 1999 and passed the 1000th episode mark on November 21, 2021. A preview video was recently released for its upcoming 1071th episode, “Luffy’s Peak – Attained! Gear Fifth” which premieres on August 6.
The 15th One Piece anime movie, One Piece Film Red, premiered in Japan in August 2022 and ended its run as the country’s eighth highest-grossing film. It is also one of the highest-grossing anime movies worldwide.
Source: Netflix YouTube channel
