Netflix’s One Piece Live-Action Series Adds Morgan Davies & More to Cast

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Netflix’s One Piece Live-Action Series Adds Morgan Davies & More to Cast

Netflix’s One Piece live-action series has added six new cast members to the project, including Morgan Davies (The End, Evil Dead Rise), Ilia Isorelýs Paulino (The Sex Lives of College Girls, Me Time), Aidan Scott (Action Point, Between the Devil), Jeff Ward (Brand New Cherry Flavor, Hacks), McKinley Belcher III (Ozark, The Good Lord Bird), and Vincent Regan (300, Troy), according to Variety.

Davies will reportedly star as Koby, with Paulino playing Alvida, Scott as Helmeppo, Ward as Buggy, Belcher as Arlong, and Regan as Garp.

The new additions join the previously announced Iñaki Godoy, Mackenyu, Emily Rudd, Jacob Romero Gibson, and Taz Skylar in the 10-episode series.

The series will be written by Steven Maeda (The X-Files), who will also act as showrunner and executive producer, along with writer Matt Owens (Agents of SHIELD) who is executive producing as well. They are joined by Marty Adelstein and Becky Clements of Tomorrow Studios (Snowpiercer, Cowboy Bebop), who will also executive produce the series alongside original manga author Eiichiro Oda.

The One Piece live-action series is based on Oda’s iconic Japanese manga of the same name which follows Monkey D. Luffy, the leader of a pirate crew, the Straw Hat Pirates, who gains the powers to turn his body into rubber after eating a “Devil Fruit,” and who ventures around a fantastical world of exotic islands and vast oceans in search of the legendary treasure known as “One Piece” to become the next Pirate King.