Okay, just because I am always watching news on twitter about live action, here some news since this thread wasn't updated!!
1. Filming And General
- The filming will hopefully start around beginning of September. It had been shoved back due to the corona pandemic.
- It will be filmed in the Cape Town Film Studios in South Africa.
- Netflix will stream this (it's already visible in the list)
- The production is from Tomorrow Studios.
2. Involved people
- Steven Maeda as Show runner.
- Oda works closely with them.
- The screen writers finished writing the scripts a while ago. Those are the writers: Steven Maeda, Matt Owens, Diego Gutierrez, Allison Weintraub, Ian Stokes, Lindsay Gelfand, Laura Jacqmin, Jason Cho, Damani Johnson, Tom Hyndman, Damani O, Allen Dewey Wier IV, Caty Zick.
- Eddie Bonin will be the Visual Effects Executive.
3. The Actors
- Currently unknown yet but casting started June 1 so by now the actors should be set.
- No infos about actors have been confirmed yet. OP Netflix on Twitter asked around and indicated towards fans that different nationalities/a diverse cast will be the case.
- An actor commonly known as Burge made fan videos of him being Usopp and is promoting himself with it. It's unclear if he will play Usopp.
- Lewis Tan showed signs of playing Zoro. Nothing is confirmed.
4. The Leaked Script
There has been a leaked script a while ago (a pilot script). I read through it before it was taken down and it was an early script but it gave One Piece a more serious and darker vibe. So far it didn't look all too different from the original. It included Rogers Execution with a lot of additional info that provides world building right from the start, as well as Luffys backstory, how he meets Alvida and Coby, and how Zoro got to Shellstown. It set the world and its basic features well but it is still an early scripts and changes have definitely been made later on. It didn't feel ridiculous or out of place, the humor of One Piece was formed into realistic shape and only small changes have been made to improve story telling.