‘One Piece’ Producers Have Completed Season 2 Scripts & Are ‘Ready’ To Film As They Await The Show’s Fate Amid Strikes

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Though the fate of Netflix’s “One Piece” remains unknown despite its successful Aug. 31 launch, producers reveal that scripts for a potential season 2 are complete, therefore ready for production, shall they receive the green light. “We’ve got scripts ready,” Marty Adelstein, CEO of Tomorrow Studios — which produces the live action pirate adventure with manga creator, Eiichiro Oda, and publisher, Shueisha — told Variety on Thursday.

Meanwhile, Tomorrow Studios president, Becky Clements, is confident that season 2 could premiere as early as next year, once production is able to start upon the SAG-AFTRA strike reaching an agreement with the AMPTP. READ MORE: ‘One Piece’ Creator Admits There’s Been A ‘History Of Failure’ Turning A Manga Into A Live-Action Series, Says He Acted ‘As A Guard Dog’ To Ensure It Was Done Right “Realistically, hopefully, a year away, if we move very quickly, and that is a possibility,” Clements said of when fans could expect a possible season 2. “Somewhere between a year and 18 months, we could be ready for air.” Though Netflix has praised “One Piece”‘s triumphant season 1 premiere, where it landed the No.

1 spot on its weekly Top 10 list with 18.5 million views in its first four days on the streamer, a season 2 renewal has yet to be determined.

However, Adelstein and Clements state that, based on the current signs, a pickup seems promising. READ MORE: ‘One Piece’ Creator Says Iñaki Godoy Was The Only Choice For Luffy “They keep it, as you know, close to the vest until post-launch,” Clements shared. “But with Netflix’s support of the title, we expected it to be number one and we sensed their research and algorithms probably saw the possibility for that.