She also talks about the challenges in setting up Usopp and Zoro's arcs.
The Big Picture Netflix's live-action series One Piece, as an adaptation of the long-running manga and anime of the same name, has its fair share of pressures attached to it. Fortunately for director Emma Sullivan, her experience with a similarly beloved fantasy-adventure, Doctor Who, meant she was up for tackling the adventures of Luffy , Zoro , Nami , Usopp , and Sanji , and in her two episodes specifically, digging into the characters of Usopp and Zoro.
EMMA SULLIVAN: I guess I was in the running for it because I had done Doctor Who and The Watch, so I had done IP that's fantasy before, but also, I had worked in Cape Town with a film in Africa, as well, which is where we shot it. So that brought me to it. I was new to it when they started asking me about this show, I wasn't familiar with it.
Talking about these challenges and your episodes, Episodes 3 and 4, what would you say was the biggest hurdle to overcome in bringing this part of the arc to the screen? SULLIVAN: I think I have a few sequences where it gets quite exciting. I hope they find it as exciting as we want them to, really, but I don't want to give away any plot spoilers. [Laughs]
I'm gonna circle back a bit to what you mentioned before about having worked on Doctor Who and now working on this.
SULLIVAN: Yeah, you just kind of make those transitions work, and those are fun. Those are the fun moments trying to go from one to the other, as well, without it being jarring.
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