ComingSoon spoke with One Piece director Marc Jobst about the Netflix adaptation of Eiichiro Oda's internationally beloved series.
Spencer Legacy: When it comes to One Piece, what was it about the franchise that really drew you in to direct? Did you have any experience with the manga or the anime, or was it even just the concept that was appealing to you?No, I read the scripts. I read the manga, and I read the scripts, and I was just drawn into this world of joy and positivity and sunshine and a world of, “Yes! Let’s just do it!” It really felt, to me, like the world needed this at this particular moment.
So what we wanted to do was create a show that sat alongside the manga and the anime as additions, not as replacements. So if you love One Piece, then you love the manga, and you love the anime — which adds to the manga — and you’ve got the live-action, which hopefully will add to those other two too. And in the process of that, what you want to do is create characters that have fully emotional lives.
Where it did help is that, when you’re shooting Black Sails — because the ships are actually a kilometer away from a motorway. They’re nowhere near the sea, so you’ve got green screens all around it. So having shot on those ships, I knew how to shoot with the green screens around you. Also because the winds in Cape Town are so severe, there are times when you can’t put the sails up because it’ll just blow the ship over.
So for example, in the action sequences, we wanted to shoot those action sequences in a different way to how I’d shot action sequences with Marvel and how I’d shot The Witcher’s action sequences. Because One Piece is a different beast, it has to have a different kind of sensibility. So one of the things that I suggest is, “Well, what if we have one camera operator who works entirely with the stunt team the entire time. So they become like the stunt doubles and the stuntmen.
I think it’s the same with when you’re working with Marvel Studios — what they really want you to do is surprise them. They are incredibly welcoming of innovation and surprise. So your job then is to have the courage to go in and say, “This is what I want to do.” And if you can win the argument on story and character terms, they will back you up 100%. If it’s just to be cool, then yeah, they might push you back a bit.— I really loved Hannibal.
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