From casting to the slicing room, One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda collaborated carefully with the crew behind Netflix’s live-action series adaptation of his beloved tale each step of the way in which.
io9 not too long ago chatted with collection 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 collection 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 looking for the legendary treasure referred to 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 collection 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 organize. “After I was taking the conferences, we have been nonetheless type of deep in within the pandemic. I used to be capable of go and watch a number of the anime on Netflix and I cherished it. I believed it was nice… however I actually tried to learn lots of the manga, which is what the show is really based on.”
Litman went on to develop into one among three editors to work on the collection’ pilot episode, marking the beginning of his expertise taking notes instantly from Oda. “We acquired notes from Oda as soon as the episodes have been completed and he was very proud of every little thing. He gave us actually nice constructive [and] actually attention-grabbing notes,” Litman mentioned.
One process 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 filled with lore. “We had lots of scenes in there that have been nice scenes. And so they have been they have been scripted and shot and minimize in a linear style,” Litman shared concerning the episodes that introduce Usopp and provides us extra backstory on Zoro. “So only one scene after one other, and the performances have been terrific. They only took lots of time to get via that stuff—specifically Kaya and Usopp’s episode three, when Kaya is speaking to Nami about her love for Usopp, and identical 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 via. And we acquired a word [from Oda] that mentioned, ‘Hey, is there a method to intercut? Is that attainable to do?’ And to Matt and [co-showrunner Steven Maeda]’s credit score, they have been very gracious in permitting the editors to listen to the broad stroke notes.” Litman was then given time to determine the best way to intercut the scenes. “We have been capable of we modify a line right here, change a line there to make it right into a question-answer sequence. We have been capable of intercut these sequences after which we’d determine it out, the construction to do all that. And we offered it to the producer, to the showrunners, and so they simply cherished it and so they have been actually joyful.”
One Piece season one is now streaming on Netflix.
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