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More Casting Announcements for ONE PIECE Adaption
Arguably one of the biggest shonen products in the world, Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece has been serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump since 1997, and has gained a strong and dedicated following, with the anime recently celebrating one thousand episodes! A story of pirates searching for lost treasure in a world full of strange creatures and cursed fruit, the beloved series is being adapted to live-action by Netflix, and has already confirmed casting for the core group of Straw Hat Pirates. Further casting details for supporting cast have been announced recently, and most of them seek to oppose Luffy and the Straw Hats in their quest. Joining the cast is Morgan Davies (Evil Dead Rise) as Koby, friend of protagonist Luffy which we meet at the beginning of the story. Buggy the Clown, captain of an opposing Pirate crew, is played by Jeff Ward (Agents of Shield), as well Ilia Isorelýs Paulino (Queenpins) […]
ONE PIECE Manga Lands Ten-Episode Live-Action Series At Netflix
A ten-episode live-action rendition of One Piece found a new home at Netflix on Wednesday according to trade news and a press announcement from the streamer. The news comes following word that broke in July of 2017 that a live-action series was in the works from Shueisha, and Marty Adelstein’s Tomorrow Studios, the same company involved with the current serial production of Cowboy Bebop – also for the streamer. A multitude of adventures outline One Piece which took off as a hit manga beginning in 1997. The franchise expanded itself greatly into television and original video animes with its story centered on Monkey D. Luffy and his epic, action-packed and sprawling quest to find said ‘piece’ and claim the title of “King Of The Pirates”. The manga has sold over 460 million copies in its nearing 23-year history, birthed from author/creator Eiichiro Oda who took to Twitter for a statement […]
COWBOY BEBOP: Netflix Rounds Up Its Live-Action Cast
It’s been ages since talk began of a live-action Cowboy Bebop feature adaptation, and just a few years and change as those efforts evolved into TV with Netflix acquiring the rights last November. Now we have a quartet of casting announcements from Variety with John Cho (Star Trek reboot trilogy) leading the way as Spike Spiegel. The actor will be joined by Mustafa Shakir (Brawl In Cell Block 99, Luke Cage: Season Two) for the role of Jet Black along with Daniella Pineda (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom) as Faye Valentine, and Alex Hassell (The Bisexual, upcoming Amazon series The Boys) in the role of Spike Spiegel’s archnemesis and the Syndicate’s most formidable hitman, Vicious. Based on Cain Kuga’s Kadokawa Shoten manga and Shinichiro Watanabe hit anime series from Sunrise Inc., Cowboy Bebop is the jazz-inspired, genre-bending action sci-fi tale of Spike Spiegel, Jet Black, Faye Valentine and Radical Ed: a […]
Netflix Picks Up COWBOY BEBOP Live-Action Series For Co-Production And Distribution
Following the news of a live-action Cowboy Bebop series last June, the word is out as Netflix just announced its acquisition via press release late Tuesday. Netflix will handle physical production and co-produce with Marty Adelstein’s shared Tomorrow Studios shingle with ITV Studios’. Based on Kuga Cain’s Kadokawa Shoten manga and Watanabe Shinichiro’s hit anime series from Sunrise Inc., Cowboy Bebop is the jazz-inspired, genre-bending story of Spike Spiegel, Jet Black, Faye Valentine and Radical Ed: a rag-tag crew of bounty hunters on the run from their pasts as they hunt down the solar system’s most dangerous criminals. They’ll even save the world…for the right price. Watanabe himself is serving as a consultant on the ten-episode space saga, the first of which screenwriter Christopher Yost (Thor: The Dark World, Thor: Ragnarok) will put to pen. Yost is also exec producing next to Andre Nemec, Josh Appelbaum, Jeff Pinkner and Scott […]
ONE PIECE Is Setting Sail In A Live-Action TV Series
It was a little over a year ago that a Japanese live-action adaptation of manga author Oda Eiichiro’s longstanding Shueisha Inc. publication and anime IP, One Piece, was announced for its own live-action movie. I’m not certain if that project is still moving forward but I’ll be sure to spread the word if I hear anything else, although considering recent movement over at Marty Adelstein’s Tomorrow Studios, I reckon it won’t be any time soon. The word now is that Oda, Shuesha Inc. and the studio are partnering for a live-action television drama instead, in news as reported over at Japan Times in the wake of the manga’s twentieth anniversary celebration. The manga itself took off in 1997 and has expanded itself greatly into television and original video animes with its story centered on Monkey D. Luffy and his epic, action-packed and sprawling quest to find said ‘piece’ and claim […]
A Live-Action COWBOY BEBOP Adaptation Is Coming To Television
Well it’s not the live-action feature film that’s been long rumored since the early two-thousandsies, but for what its worth a television push may be feasible for fans ardent of the highly popular manga and anime, Cowboy Bebop. Trade news sources have confirmed such a series now in the works to adapt the property for the small screen. Sunrise Inc., the studio behind Watanabe Shinichiro’s 1998 anime advancement of Kuga Cain’s Kadokawa Shoten manga is executive producing the series which tells of the adventures and misadventures of 21st century intergalactic bounty hunter Spike Spiegel and his ragtag team of bounty hunters. Also on board are Tomorrow Studios’s Marty Adelstein and Becky Clements and Matthew Weinberg, and Midnight Radio quartet Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec, Jeff Pinkner, and Scott Rosenberg. Thor: Ragnarok scribe Chris Yost is penning the adaptation. “We are excited to work with Sunrise in bringing this beloved anime to […]
SNOWPIERCER Gets TV Series Development, Bong Joon-Ho To Exec Produce
It’s a good week this week if you’re name is Bong Joon-Ho. The director’s most recent project, Okja, has just partnered with Netflix and Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment banner ahead of its 2017 release and marks the beginning of a new spurt of progress in the wake of his hit sci-fi success story, Snowpiercer. Incidentally, it turns out that Marty Adelstein’s Tomorrow Studios are optioning the rights to the film as they now see potential for a series according to THR. Sarah Connor Chronicles scribe Josh Friedman has been tapped the hopeful series based on the 2013 movie and its literary predecessor, “Le Transperceneige”, in which an apocalyptic Ice Age takes over Earth, forcing the remainder of mankind to survive on a train that encircles the world where class warfare ultimately erupts in a hail of bullets and blunt objects. The film starred an ensemble cast featuring Chris Evans, […]