Exclusive: David Dastmalchian talks playing Mr. 3 in Netflix’s One Piece
honestly live action anime should not be hard to fuck up. In most cases you literally have 2 media formats to pull from. you need storyboards? cool you got the manga. want to see how those storyboards play out? awesome you got the anime. now take those and just make them with real people.
there’s a reason why you’re adapting it to live action. it’s popular, it’s successful, no need to make the wheel smoother.
Yet this one changed the story and characters unnecessarily. I mean I guess we don’t want frame by frame but when they change the main characters choices and behaviour and westernise it by smoothing it a lot of weird stuff (and then add other weird of lower quality) it makes a fan like me sad.
They aren’t going to make over a 1000 episodes for the live action, so they have to cut a lot of stuff. I honestly doubt we’ll get that far into the story as it is (given the rate they’re making it).
Honestly live action of animated formats always suffers, just look at all the Disney live actions. They’re not even limited by runtime and they feel a little less magical/right.
Totally agree, but for example in the manga Luffy is completely uninterested in why Nami betrays them because he knows she’s good and he made his mind up already so it doesn’t matter to him. That’s how he is.
In the live action he starts investigating it instead, which makes him more generic in actually more screen time, and one piece is a LOT about Luffy. If the screen writers don’t get him I don’t have high hopes.
On the other hand, supposedly Oda signed off on everything so maybe the details that are important to me aren’t that great of a deal…
Oda literally had the last word on what gets in the final cut.
The version is just fine.
Yeah I know. Which makes me think that some things that are important to me might not be that important to him I guess.
I’ve read the comics since I was young and now I’m 43 and apparently find it important that this manga adaptation is the way I want it 🤷♂️
I really want them to give Bebop another chance. It was so close to capturing lightning and mirrored this show’s production philosophy in many ways. Take what they’ve learned from One Piece and apply it to the second season they had already planned.
The biggest thing that bothered me in the show is how the camera was in a permanent close-up mode. Like every frame was an actor’s face taking up more than half the screen. It made the sets feel very small and cramped, which is ironic because the setting of the show is supposed to be vast. Was that a deliberate stylistic choice, or budget constraints? I heard it’s Netflix’s biggest budget show ever so that can’t be.
David Dastmalchian is the biggest goth nerd weeb in Hollywood, and I love him for it.
I could see him playing Killy in a live action Blame!.
