The One Piece live-action adaptation of Eiichiro Oda’s globally renowned manga and anime franchise is being hailed as one of the best 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 large delaying negotiations with the striking WGA and SAG-AFTRA.
“We’ve received scripts prepared,” Marty Adelstein, CEO of Tomorrow Studios, informed Variety. The manufacturing firm’s president, Becky Clements, mentioned that so far as season two goes, “somewhere between a yr and 18 months, we may very well be prepared for air.” The caveat, in fact, 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 gentle all of the extra probably. “With Netflix’s assist 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 be unbelievable.”
Whereas viewers look ahead to Netflix to verify a season two, the WGA and SAG-AFTRA should additionally look ahead to the AMPTP to renew negotiations. It’s the studios’ loss to not transfer rapidly and worth their expertise pool’s enrichment of the leisure business as seen in One Piece’s breakthrough success.
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