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The first glimpse into Luffy’s journey to become King of the Pirates was revealed on YouTube with a trailer for the upcoming live-action adaptation of Eiichiro Oda’s long-running manga One Piece.
The cast features Iñaki Godoy as Monkey D. Luffy, are Mackenyu Arata as the swordsman Roronoa Zoro, Taz Skylar as culinary whiz Sanji, Emily Rudd as the thief Nami, and Jacob Romero Gibson as sharpshooter Usopp.
Creator Eiichiro Oda is involved in the production, serving as an executive producer alongside Marty Adelstein, and Becky Clements. Matt Owens and Steven Maeda serve as writers, producers and showrunners, with production by Tomorrow Studios and Netflix.
It has always been Luffy’s dream to explore the ocean, but in order to do so, he needs a crew and a ship. With an appetite for treasure, Luffy’s vision becomes reality, but not always in his favour. The competition to locate the legendary One Piece is fierce and this small band of pirates must evade other corsairs, and the relentless Marines…
First published in 1997, One Piece has accumulated 105 individual manga volumes, over 1,050 anime episodes, 15 feature films, the most recent being One Piece Film: Red, multiple video games, and a theme park in Japan. In North America, the One Piece anime streams on multiple platforms including Netflix, Crunchyroll, while Viz Media handles the print and digital versions of the manga.
Source: Netflix press release
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