‘One Piece’ Director on Adapting the Anime for Netflix, What Happened to ‘Jupiter’s Legacy’

While Japan has a long tradition of live-action adaptations of manga and anime (many of which are great!), American audiences are mostly familiar with Hollywood’s horrendous failed attempts at the adaptations. Movies like Dragon Ball: Evolution, Ghost in the Shell, or Netflix’s own adaptation of Cowboy Bebop, manage to be both terrible adaptations, and just bad stories on their own.

Now, director Marc Jobst, who has worked in some of the biggest genre shows of the past few years, from Daredevil to The Witcher, is tasked with bringing the single biggest manga of all time to live-action —…