From casting to the reducing 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 best way.
io9 just lately 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 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 stated. He had been probably 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 have been nonetheless form of deep in within the pandemic. I used to be in a position to go and watch among the anime on Netflix and I liked it. I assumed it was nice… however I actually tried to learn plenty of the manga, which is what the show is really based on.”
Litman went on to grow to be one in every of three editors to work on the sequence’ pilot episode, marking the beginning of his expertise taking notes immediately from Oda. “We acquired notes from Oda as soon as the episodes have been completed and he was very pleased with all the things. He gave us actually nice constructive [and] actually attention-grabbing notes,” Litman stated.
One process Litman and his crew confronted was discovering methods to include particulars from every character’s backstory—no small feat, for the reason that One Piece anime has a whole bunch of episodes filled with lore. “We had plenty of scenes in there that have been nice scenes. And so they have been they have been scripted and shot and reduce in a linear vogue,” 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 plenty of time to get by means of 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 only took a very long time to get by means of. And we bought a observe [from Oda] that stated, ‘Hey, is there a solution 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 easy methods to intercut the scenes. “We have been in a position to we alter a line right here, change a line there to make it right into a question-answer sequence. We have been in a position to 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, and so they simply liked it and so they have been actually pleased.”
One Piece season one is now streaming on Netflix.
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