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

The producers of Netflix’s surprisingly well-liked One Piece live-action collection say scripts for a possible second season are finished and the present may return on the streamer as early as subsequent 12 months.

In an interview with Selection, Marty Adelstein, the CEO of Tomorrow Studios (the parents who made the One Piece live-action collection in addition to Netflix’s swiftly canceled Cowboy Bebop live-action collection) confirmed that, “We’ve received scripts prepared.” The caveat, nevertheless, is that manufacturing of a potential second season of the One Piece live-action collection can’t begin till Hollywood’s SAG-AFTRA strike is resolved.

“Realistically, hopefully, a 12 months away, if we transfer in a short time, and that may be a chance,” Becky Clements, president of Tomorrow Studios, advised Selection. “Someplace between a 12 months and 18 months, we could possibly 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 neighborhood since its August 31 premiere: a uncommon success story. It debuted because the high present on the streamer with 18.5 million views—a feat Clements says “exceeded” Netflix’s expectations.

“I believe [Netflix is] taking a look at varied conditions about what number of episodes they do, do they break them up?” Adelstein stated. “I believe 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 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 current followers of the collection, a course of he stated the primary season had already began.

“We’re getting a whole lot of household viewing and that’s actually the important thing, is to herald 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 look at it and other people actually like it,” Adelstein stated.

In our evaluation of Netflix’s One Piece, we stated the present “is among the uncommon well-made live-action anime diversifications” that’s “filled 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.”