According to Gizmodo, the creative team behind Netflix's live-action One Piece adaptation is committed to the long haul, signaling ambitions to see the sprawling saga through across multiple seasons.
Why This Is Huge News for the Fancasting Community
For fans of Eiichiro Oda's legendary manga, "long haul" means one thing: a whole lot of casting still to come. The Straw Hat Pirates grow their crew gradually over hundreds of chapters, and iconic figures like Brook, Franky, and Robin have yet to be locked in for the live-action world. Beyond the core crew, the One Piece universe is stuffed with Warlords, Emperors, and larger-than-life villains — characters like Kaidou, Big Mom, and Whitebeard who would demand truly extraordinary casting choices. Every season greenlit is another round of the casting conversation that One Piece fans have been having for years.
That conversation is very much alive on myCast right now, spread across multiple fan-cast stories with some genuinely compelling picks worth digging into.
What myCast Fans Are Saying
The myCast community has built out several detailed visions for how this adaptation could look, and comparing them reveals where fan consensus is forming — and where the debates are fiercest.
The most-voted story, One Piece, has racked up 26 total votes across 18 roles and is the richest source of fan opinion right now. The standout pick by a wide margin: Lewis Tan as Roronoa Zoro with 10 votes, making him the single most-endorsed choice across all three stories on the platform. It's easy to see the logic — Tan has the physicality, the screen presence, and the martial arts background that Zoro's three-sword style demands. If the show is ever in the market for a recast or an expanded role, fans clearly have someone in mind.
Sanji, the crew's suave chef and kick-based fighter, is one of the most hotly contested roles across the platform. In One Piece, Eduard Badaluta leads with 4 votes, while the larger One Piece story — which covers a massive 73 roles — shows fans split between and , each with a vote. Briney, fresh off his breakout in The Summer I Turned Pretty, keeps appearing in fan discussions for the romantically hopeless, secretly deadly cook.