Two mysterious new photographs hint at upcoming news about the live-action One Piece TV series. Created by Eiichiro Oda in 1996, One Piece debuted in Weekly Shōnen Jump the following year. What was initially supposed to be a five-year storyline about the pirate Luffy looking for the fabled treasure, One Piece, turned into a nearly 25-year epic and, according to Oricon, one of the best-selling manga ever. Luffy’s story has transformed from a naive, orphaned boy hoping to become the next pirate king to one of a man and his formidable crew fighting life-or-death battles against some of the most powerful pirates in the world, unraveling age-old mysteries in the process.
Netflix announced its bold live-action project in early 2020, aiming to produce the first-ever adaptation of Oda’s legendary series. Unfortunately, the coronavirus pandemic halted production on One Piece and numerous other projects before resuming in March 2021, and filming finally began in January 2022 in Cape Town, South Africa. A couple of months before that, Netflix announced the core Straw Hat Pirates and their respective cast members. Now, new images hint at something intriguing coming out of the production’s camp.
The official Japanese One Piece Twitter feed shares a photo with several tantalizing components. Two photographs rest on a table, one displaying the production’s location of Cape Town (taken straight from a popular Google image), and the other revealing Luffy’s iconic straw hat that becomes the symbol of his pirate crew. Alongside the photographs are a newsboy cap, a candle, and a pair of spectacles atop a notebook. A caption accompanies the image, roughly translated to “Two more photos arrived. Straw hat and this place … is it a harbor? On March 28th, something will happen.” Check out the tweet below:
【3.28.Mon】（2/6）
さらに2枚の写真が到着。
麦わら帽子と、この場所は…港か？3月28日、なにかが起こる。#ONEPIECE pic.twitter.com/wA5WkZuaSb
— ONE PIECE スタッフ【公式】/ Official (@Eiichiro_Staff) March 21, 2022
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The glasses look vaguely familiar to those worn by Koby, recently cast along with five others (including several antagonists). While they’re not the central element in this image, they are a curious addition that One Piece fans will undoubtedly mull over until March 28. The newsboy cap doesn’t appear to have any immediate significance, but the two photographs certainly do. The image of Cape Town is relevant, because it’s the filming location for the series first season but could indicate the appearance of one of the first islands the Straw Hats visit. The image of the actual straw hat could hint at a teaser image of actor Iñaki Godoy in Luffy’s attire.
Of course, this is all speculation. Fans replying to the tweet theorize that a teaser trailer is incoming, though, with only two months worth of filming completed, that seems unlikely. That aside, if the constructed large-scale pirate ships thought to belong to Alvida and Don Krieg are any sign, any teaser content emerging from the project should be exciting. One Piece readers, who are used to speculating what comes next in a story ridden with callbacks and long-term plot devices, will have to wait until next week to see what the One Piece live-action team has in store.
Source: ONE PIECE / Twitter
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