The One Piece live-action adaptation of Eiichiro Oda’s globally famend manga and anime franchise is being hailed as the most effective to hit screens. However followers looking forward to extra must wait—season two is being held up by the hubris of Netflix and the AMPTP at giant delaying negotiations with the placing WGA and SAG-AFTRA.
“We’ve bought scripts prepared,” Marty Adelstein, CEO of Tomorrow Studios, informed Selection. The manufacturing firm’s president, Becky Clements, mentioned that so far as season two goes, “somewhere between a 12 months and 18 months, we may very well be prepared for air.” The caveat, after all, is that manufacturing will solely resume as soon as the strikes finish.
Selection detailed that Netflix’s One Piece sequence has raked in 18.5 million views, and whereas a season two hasn’t been introduced but, its success and fan love makes the inexperienced mild all of the extra probably. “With Netflix’s help of the title, we anticipated it to be primary and we sensed their analysis and algorithms in all probability noticed the chance for that,” Clements informed the commerce. “However in our subsequent calls post-launch, we now have been informed that we now have exceeded expectations, which can also be implausible.”
Whereas viewers watch for Netflix to affirm a season two, the WGA and SAG-AFTRA should additionally watch for the AMPTP to renew negotiations. It’s the studios’ loss to not transfer shortly and worth their expertise pool’s enrichment of the leisure trade as seen in One Piece’s breakthrough success.
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