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Live-Action One Piece Series' New Trailer Previews Arlong, Roger, More Characters

The One Piece Day 2023 livestream event on Saturday revealed a new trailer for the Hollywood live-action series of Eiichiro Oda's One Piece manga.

Oda also provided a long statement about the live-action series at the event, which Mayumi Tanaka (Japanese voice of Luffy) read out in Japanese. The English version of the statement is below.

The series will debut on Netflix on August 31.

Original creator Oda, who is also serving as an executive producer, stated in May that the series would not launch until he is "satisfied." He added that "each and every entity involved is working in sync." The series will have eight episodes, as opposed to 10 episodes as originally reported.

The live-action cast includes:

• Iñaki Godoy as Monkey D. Luffy
• Mackenyu as Roronoa Zoro
• Emily Rudd as Nami
• Jacob Romero Gibson as Usopp
• Taz Skylar as Sanji
• Morgan Davies as Koby
• Ilia Isorelýs Paulino as Alvida
• Aidan Scott as Helmeppo
• McKinley Belcher III as Arlong
• Vincent Regan as Garp
• Peter Gadiot as Shanks
• Alexander Maniatis as Klahadore
• Steven Ward as Mihawk
• Craig Fairbrass as Chef Zeff
• Langley Kirkwood as Captain Morgan
• Celeste Loots as Kaya
• Chioma Umeala as Nojiko
• Colton Osorio as Young Monkey D. Luffy

The Japanese voice actors for Luffy, Zoro, Nami, Usopp, and Sanji in The One Piece TV anime will reprise their roles in the Japanese dub. Additionally, Iñaki Godoy and and Taz Skylar will dub Luffy and Sanji, respectively, in Spanish.

Netflix will exclusively stream the live-action series.

Tomorrow Studios, a partnership between producer Marty Adelstein (Prison Break, Teen Wolf) and ITV Studios, is producing the live-action series. Matt Owens (Luke Cage, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) is the show's writer. Steven Maeda and Becky Clements are executive producers.

Adelstein stated in a video message shown at Jump Festa in 2017 that the live-action Hollywood television series adaptation of the manga will start with the East Blue arc and will "broaden from there." Adelstein also stated that the series promises to create "a true One Piece" after he discussed the project with Oda personally.

Source: One Piece Day 2023 livestream