Woah you were faster than me but it was to be expected if you watch Youtubers regularly xd
Here's the link for everyone, Matt Owens is being introduced to the stream at around 54min.
When I checked twitter this morning, EVERYONE was talking about it and how hyped they are now.
I listened into the stream for a couple minutes only but so far Matt Owens sounds like a really amazing guy. He's been a fan of One Piece for about ten years, and it helped him in his life a lot. He also mentioned that he watches many OP youtubers that were present on the stream! (Not to forget that he is also a patron to Arturs Library of Ohara for a long while already!)
More info as I am now listening to the whole thing (some may overlap with what
@Rej said)
- Upon meeting Oda, he said Oda is very wary at first but after loosening up to the conversation he can be very funny.
- Humor/comedy will be difficult to convert to live action. Some of it is very eastern or childish. But there will be humor.
- There‘s three key points in One Piece: it makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you go „holy shit“ (that’s what he said lol). And that’s what they try to keep in mind.
- He agrees that there’s trust issues about manga/anime live action adaptations. And he wants to try his best as a fan as well to make it a good live adaptation.
- Second issue they had in the beginning was about the knowledge they had about the series and implementing information that was only revealed later on. Especially because East Blue is very different and feels „static“ and they wanted to connect the East Blue to the rest of the story with more information.
- They asked him due to that if they will skip Gaimon and he said „he cannot confirm or deny it“ with a laugh.
- He gave hints that Season 1 might end with Arlong Park as he said the place at where the season ends, they will stay longer. (Arlong Park is the longest arc in East Blue IIRC). I wouldn’t mind tho if they extended Loguetown lol.
- He‘s being asked about the leaked script but he couldn’t say anything about it.
- Covid-19 made them fall behind schedule so they couldn’t start filming/building anything yet. But they took the time to do more background work.
- Casting isn’t finished (or hasn’t even started yet).
- They had to lay out their plans to Oda for him to give approval for the scripts etc. He and his team are deeply involved.
- If they want to make any changes, they have to talk to Oda about it but they always go back to the source material. Netflix knows how valuable and successful One Piece is in its original format so it won‘t do any „okay nice concept, I will do my own thing of it.“
- The maturity rating will be TV-14.
- Making things look good such as Luffys stretching powers is a big concern of theirs and they aren‘t too sure of what it will be like, but they plan to find a solution to make it as cool as possible.
- Matt Owens loves the Davy Back Fight a lot because of the amount of crew shenanigans. His favorite arc is Enies Lobby and he really wants to get there (what a surprise lol). His favorite character is Law bc of the tragedy he encountered, his powers and the changes he undergoes while being with the Strawhats. He also hates the idea of Law having a death flag on him but he kinda sees it coming.
- He likes every Strawhat BUT he likes Sanji more than Zoro lol, they went wild about that xD
- They asked him about implementing a lollipop easter egg (bc Sanji 4kids version) and now he really wants to add it xD
- He really wants to know more about Vegapunk.
- He likes Robin more than Nami. He‘s also got figurines, most of them are Nami though.
- About Shanks and Mihawk it got confusing. But shortly after he left.
That‘s all relevant stuff.
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