I rest assured that One Piece is unpopular enough in the states that this will never happen.

Naruto, however...

Oh good, I'm not the only one who thought this would happen.

Do not want, though.

>>5434
I'm looking forward to this. I REALLY Hate Naruto.

Hopefully it's just too goofy to be made into live action. Then again that's still my stance on Dragon Ball...

Not gonna happen. Dragon Ball Z was insanely popular enough to get Hollywood interested. One Piece is nowhere near as popular, and the only things that come close/match Dragon Ball Z's popularity are Bleach and Naruto.

>>5459
A blessing really.

"Monkey" Dee Loofie was an ordinary teenager until he discovered his pirate grandfather's "Gum-Gum" serum, an ancient alchemic potion that allows the person who drinks it to stretch his body!

Along with rapping samurai "Row Row" Noah Zolo, geeky computer hacker Usurp, and Monkey's gay cousin Sam G., Monkey and his cheerleader girlfriend Naymi must battle the evil Whitebeard's crew of murderous pirates to recover his grandfather's secret treasure: one piece of gold that has the magical powers to grant any wish.

Join us this summer for the newest action-filled swashbuckling adventure ever to make a pirate say "Arr"! Based on the popular Japanese comic book...

One Piece: Legend of the Gone Mary

>>5833

I hate you.

>>5833
why

why rem

why

>>5833
HAhahahahaha, Oh god. I lost it at the rapping samurai part and then again at SAM G.

>>5833

>>5833
I... I want to see this. Just because it would the stupidest, most awesomely bad thing ever.

>>5833
Holy shit. This is... I can't even

I really had to laugh out loud man.

>>5833
This is the worst idea ever and yet I so want to see it.

>>5833
>computer hacker Usurp
. . .You know, it figures that Usopp's counterpart would actually be kinda cool.

Alright, let's put this thread to good use: if you had to make a live-action One Piece movie for an American audience how would you pull it off?

I used to think that mimicking the current superhero movies was the way to go, but after seeing clips of Scot Pilgrim's action scenes I think that it's totally possible to replicate OP's cartoonishness on the big screen. Think of Kung Fu Hustle: over-the-top fighting with Looney Toons physics thrown in with special effects.

The main problem is the story line: One Piece is big, and unlike with most superhero comics the origin story (i.e. everything up to and including Arlong Park) is too long and disjointed. The best route would probably be either focusing on one story arc like Alabasta or created a new story like the Japanese movies did. There's also the problem that the manga still hasn't reached the conclusion, meaning that the movie can't have a satisfying "THE END," which wouldn't be as much of a problem if the story's ultimate goal wasn't in the title itself.

Also, there's the issue of setting. Would it take too long or be too much of a leap to introduce the audience to this totally insane world? It's not like run-of-the-mill fantasy movies where everyone's already accustomed to the tropes; this is Age of Piracy hijinks mixed in with unique geography, weird technology, superpowers granted by special fruit, and all of that delightful nonsense. Would the movie have to remove some of those elements in order to make it easier to understand?

>>6400
Doesn't need a THE END, does it? "Onward, then! Into the horizon!" has worked great for some movies.

I'd suggest something like the sixth movie or whichever number movie was Dead End adventure (fourth I think), which stood well enough alone that I showed it to my friend with no problem after a five minute 'so she can grow body parts no it's not gross it really looks quite elegant etc.'

What I'd like to see is a heavily cut Skypiea arc, though. RL Ener would be totally boss.

>>6401
The problem with Skypiea and Alabasta is that hardly any time is spent on THE HIGH SEAS, which is what people look for in a pirate film.

I think maybe a speedrun to Arlong. Maybe start off at the Baratie with Zoro, Nami, and Usopp already in tow. They fight Krieg, Nami betrays them, goes to Arlong, they give chase, fight Arlong, then ONWARD TO THE GRAND LINE!

>>6402
The more I think about it, the more I think a movie 4 rehash would work. Not the entire thing (Shuraiya would just crowd out an already crowded stage) but the premise of a bigass pirate race.

>>6404
Nah, I think we should start the film with an amalgamation of the first few arcs. Start with Luffy's origin and a few select moments of the others, without giving too much away for the others. Put the Alvida stuff and Luffy meeting Zoro together, with Alvida being the one to force Zoro into surrendering. Coby stays with the crew throughout the movie up to the end. Along the way we're given snippets of Ussop and Kaya's relationship, give a good bit of time to build up Usopp, up to when the Kuro pirates are supposed to show up. for time though, we just change the Kuro Pirates into the Buggy Pirates, with Kuro and Django being Buggy's underlings. When Luffy and company show up, they come in on the town under siege, where they run into Ussop and Nami, who are hiding in the town trying to work together. They end up working together to take down the Buggy pirates and save Kaya, with the Navy showing up at the end to take Django and Kuro, who ended up being the only two who got caught, where the Luffy and Coby scene happens, which ends with the saluting scene as the Straw Hats sail away on their brand new Merry. End the movie with the crew finding Johnny and Yosaku, who tell Zoro that they've gotten a lead on where Mihawk is, leaving us with an opening for a sequel. Throw in the Scott Pilgrim style sound effects, some of the cartoonishness of the Speed Racer movie, and give it a decent script and we've got something.

Also, who would actually be casted in a One Piece movie? I'd like to see them actually try to stick to Oda's ethnicities for the characters.

>>6409
There's a casting thread for that.

Anyway, so I assume the second movie would be Sanji intro + Arlong Park? Sounds good, but you'd need to establish Nami as a wild card early on.

>>6409
That sounds pretty bad...

>>6414
Which is exactly why I don't make movies, thank you very much.