From casting to the reducing room, One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda collaborated carefully with the crew behind Netflix’s live-action sequence adaptation of his beloved story each step of the best way.
io9 not too long ago chatted with sequence editor Eric Litman (Brokers of SHIELD) about how the present crafted its tackle the motley crew of younger misfit pirates. Guided by Oda, Litman labored on shaping the construction of the sequence in its first-act character arcs. We meet Monkey D. Luffy (Iñaki Godoy) as he’s starting his quest to be Pirate King, and the core members of his Straw Hat Pirates crew as they discover the Grand Line in quest of the legendary treasure often known as the “One Piece.”
“I used to be given episodes three and 4, directed by Emma Sullivan, and I couldn’t be extra thrilled about that,” Litman mentioned. He had been doubtlessly planning on becoming a member of the sequence since 2019, when his Brokers of SHIELD colleague and One Piece co-showrunner Matt Owens reached out to him—so Litman had fun body to arrange. “After I was taking the conferences, we had been nonetheless sort of deep in within the pandemic. I used to be capable of go and watch a number of the anime on Netflix and I liked it. I assumed it was nice… however I actually tried to learn a variety of the manga, which is what the present is basically primarily based on.”
Litman went on to turn into one in all three editors to work on the sequence’ pilot episode, marking the beginning of his expertise taking notes straight from Oda. “We acquired notes from Oda as soon as the episodes had been finished and he was very pleased with every part. He gave us actually nice constructive [and] actually attention-grabbing notes,” Litman mentioned.
One job Litman and his crew confronted was discovering methods to include particulars from every character’s backstory—no small feat, because the One Piece anime has a whole lot of episodes stuffed with lore. “We had a variety of scenes in there that had been nice scenes. And so they had been they had been scripted and shot and minimize in a linear style,” Litman shared in regards to the episodes that introduce Usopp and provides us extra backstory on Zoro. “So only one scene after one other, and the performances had been terrific. They only took a variety of time to get by that stuff—particularly Kaya and Usopp’s episode three, when Kaya is speaking to Nami about her love for Usopp, and similar factor for Usopp speaking to Luffy and Zora, the place he’s hiding his love for Kaya. However we each know that they love one another.”
He continued. “It was only a nice sequence of scenes, however they simply took a very long time to get by. And we obtained a observe [from Oda] that mentioned, ‘Hey, is there a solution to intercut? Is that attainable to do?’ And to Matt and [co-showrunner Steven Maeda]’s credit score, they had been very gracious in permitting the editors to listen to the broad stroke notes.” Litman was then given time to determine learn how to intercut the scenes. “We had been capable of we modify a line right here, change a line there to make it right into a question-answer sequence. We had been capable of intercut these sequences after which we might determine it out, the construction to do all that. And we introduced it to the producer, to the showrunners, they usually simply liked it they usually had been actually blissful.”
One Piece season one is now streaming on Netflix.
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