Jobst also executive produces the show.
Summary Set sail and watch Eiichiro Oda's iconic franchise come to a new medium with Netflix's live-action One Piece. The adaptation of Oda's manga series follows pirate Monkey D. Luffy as he's joined by swordsman and pirate bounty hunter Zoro, navigator and thief Nami, boisterous sniper Usopp, and accomplished chef and fighter Sanji to venture to the Grand Line in search of the mythical treasure known as the One Piece to become the new King of the Pirates.
Then, when One Piece came, I think they were just intrigued to see what I wanted to do with it. I read the scripts, and the scripts were so fully formed, and they were so full of joy, and sunshine, and positivity, and optimism, which, of course, is an absolutely wonderful translation of what the manga is. So, at that time, I was being sent an awful lot of apocalyptic scripts, and the world seemed to be quite a dark place.
So, it felt to me that what Steve Maeda, the showrunner, and Matt Owens, the joint showrunner, had done so well is that they grounded it in something human. Our biggest wish was to say, "Let's create something which is not the manga, it's not the anime, it's its own thing. If you love One Piece, you've got all these things to choose from." So it's not trying to take it over, it's trying to sit amongst it, to complement it.
Then, on top of that, I wanted physical actors, not only actors who can act, hold drama in emotional scenes, but also who could carry some of the action. Because the way that I shoot action, and the way that I wanted to shoot action for One Piece in particular, was in big, long, flowing shots that follow them through from one sequence to the next, and then picked up another actor in all the rest of it.
Marc Jobst: That's a really interesting question. Emily works in the moment, so I never felt like she was bringing baggage into the room. I only ever felt that she was always responding in the moment, and that is the greatest gift you can have as a director is when you have an actor who steps into a scene with another actor, and listens and responds, but doesn't say, "Oh, I don't think Luffy would do that, or Sanji would never.
Marc Jobst: That's so cool. Oh my God, Grant, sign your life away, man. There's 22 years of it! [Laughs]
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