It’s been over six months since Netflix renewed One Piece for season 2 and the artistic group has been quietly engaged on the brand new season. Pre-production is properly underway, with shipbuilding in Cape City, South Africa, and manufacturing is scheduled to start this summer time. Right here’s the newest on One Piece season 2.
Manufacturing is because of get underway round June 2024, based on an earlier ProductionWeekly Subject 1393 that was first posted in mid-March 2024. Their listings additionally counsel the present will proceed to movie in South Africa but in addition be aware Spain and Mexico for subsequent season. Nonetheless, we’ve been unable to confirm these filming areas. We’ve since been informed that manufacturing will start in mid-June 2024.
We perceive it’s at present arrange for a minimum of a seven-month and a bit shoot, which can take via late January 2025. That’s a roughly an analogous size shoot to season 1, which filmed for six months and 22 days between January thirty first, 2022, via August twenty second.
A consultant for FilmAfrika declined to touch upon the beginning date.
All filming dates are totally topic to vary, in fact, and no episode depend has been confirmed for the brand new season but.
Two Showrunners for Season 2 of One Piece
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By updates to the WGA (Author’s Guild of America) and varied LinkedIn profiles, we all know that Steven Maeda might be ceding showrunning duties to 2 others for the forthcoming season 2. As acknowledged on his Instagram profile and the WGA web site, Maeda will stay an govt producer for the upcoming season.
Matt Owens, who served as co-showrunner in season 1 in addition to an govt producer, will proceed his function in season 2 alongside Joe Tracz (listed on WGA as Joseph E Tracz), who’s simply coming off the again of Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief and Disney+. That is his third main Netflix Unique undertaking following A Sequence of Unlucky Occasions and Sprint & Lily. Tracz may even be an govt producer on the brand new season.
Owens just lately gave a speech on the 2024 Writers Guild Award for Kids’s Episodic, Lengthy Kind & Specials.
Additionally listed on the WGA web page are the next:
Elizabeth A. Hunter as Co-Government Producer
Ian Stokes as Co-Government Producer
Ashley Wigfield as Co-Government Producer
Tom Hyndman as Producer
Lindsay Gelfand as Co-Producer
Allison Weintraub as Co-Producer
Alex Regnery as Employees Author
Casting Underway for Season 2 of One Piece
Casting has additionally been underway for the brand new season for the previous few months. A number of casting calls have been noticed throughout the web for a undertaking that’s believed to be One Piece season 2, labeled Mission Renaissance. That matches the sample of season 1, which went below the working title of Mission Panda.
The one confirmed new characters for season 2 to date embody Smoker, as teased within the season 1 post-credits scene, and Tony Tony Chopper from the season 2 announcement video posted by Eiichiro Oda himself.
Sadly, not one of the contents of those casting calls might be publicly considered, though we all know they have been on the lookout for some actors between a variety of various age ranges.
We should always hear extra about One Piece within the months to come back, however till then, you possibly can spot glimpses of the author’s room and extra within the April Fools video, by which Jacob Romero answered none of your questions honestly!
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