The live-action reboot of Eiichiro Oda’s beloved pirate manga has found the first of his Four Emperors, the Red-Haired Pirate Captain Shanks.
It has been confirmed that Red-Haired Shanks will appear in the next live-action One piece Serie.
The official Twitter account for the Netflix reboot revealed that Peter Gadiot, who played Cyrus on ABC Once upon a time in wonderland, will play the charismatic pirate captain. In the short video, Gadiot confirms that he is in Cape Town, South Africa, where the new series is filmed.
Red-Haired Shanks is an important character in the One piece manga and anime In addition to being the captain of the booze-loving Red Haired Pirates, he is also one of the Four Emperors, a title given to the four most powerful pirate captains in the New World. The character will play a key role in the next animated film in the series, One Piece Film: Redwhich will be released in Japan later this year and will feature the debut of a new female character, as well as new costumes for the Straw Hat Pirates.
In addition to Gadiot, the series will star Iñaki Godoy (Go ahead, young man!) as the Monkey D. Luffy series’ rubber hero Taz Skylar (Boiling point) as the fighting chef Sanji, Mackenyu (Chihayafuru) as the swordsman Roronoa Zoro, Emily Rudd (fear street) as the navigator Nami and Jacob Romero Gibson (Green leaf) as the sniper Usopp. Earlier this month, Netflix announced some additional cast members, including Vincent Regan, who will play Luffy’s grandfather Monkey D. Garp, and numerous characters from the original manga’s Romance Dawn arc, including Ilia Isorelýs Paulino (The sex life of college girls), who will play the antagonistic pirate Iron Mace Alvida.
The new series began filming in early February. Several cast and crew members from the series posted footage of their arrival in Cape Town, but so far, Netflix has yet to release any images of the cast in costume or on set. A keen-eyed fan managed to capture the first images of the show’s pirate ships, one of which was clearly Alvida’s distinctive flagship, Miss Love Duck.
One piece began his adventure on the high seas in Weekly Shonen Jump in 1998. In the 24 years since its debut, the story of Luffy and his motley crew of Straw Hat pirates has become the best-selling manga series of all time, with approximately half a billion copies in circulation worldwide. everyone.
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