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The Producer Behind ‘One Piece’ Thinks He Knows Why It’s a Hit While ‘Cowboy Bebop’ Wasn’t · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: Netflix's new show One Piece is the second recent program
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Speaker 2: by the streamer based on a Japanese manga, following twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty one's Cowboy Bebop. With one major difference. One Piece
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Speaker 2: is a bona fide hit, while Cowboy Bebop was canceled
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Speaker 2: after one season. Interestingly, both shows were made by the
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Speaker 2: same creators, producers Marty Adelstein and Becky Clements. So what
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Speaker 2: made the difference. Adelstein tells Deadline the creator of Cowboy
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Speaker 2: Bebop didn't want anything to do with it. He wasn't disagreeable,
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Speaker 2: he just didn't want to be involved. But the main
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Speaker 2: lesson was Cowboy Bebop was an adaptation. With One Piece,
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Speaker 2: we learned you have to stay very close to the
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Speaker 2: characters that the creator created. Fans want to see Luffy
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Speaker 2: as Luffy and embody all his characteristics. We stayed as
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Speaker 2: close as we could to the original to get fans
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Speaker 2: to buy in, and that seemed to make the difference.
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Speaker 2: One Piece hasn't officially been given a second season green
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Speaker 2: light yet. Season one is on Netflix
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Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.