Netflix Will Expand Its Manga-Inspired Offerings With a Live-Action One Piece Series io9.gizmodo.com

Crop of the cover art for One Piece, Vol.
92 Image : VIZ Media LLCNetflix and Tomorrow Studios already have a Cowboy Bebop series on the way, and now they’ve got another project based on a much-loved manga: One Piece, to be created in conjunction with Japanese publisher Shueisha.
As Deadline reports, Steven Maeda (Lost, The X-Files) will serve as showrunner as well as a writer and executive producer, with Matt Owens (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Luke Cage) also serving as writer- executive producer.
AdvertisementThe series already has its own Twitter account, which shared the news directly from manga author Eiichiro Oda, who’ll also be among the series’ executive producers.
Considering how excited fans were with the news that John Cho would headline Cowboy Bebop, there’s every reason to expect that One Piece will seek out a similarly star-powered lead to play Monkey D. Luffy, the stretchy, treasure-hunting, would-be Pirate King.