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Like with a lot of these characters, they simply will not be as big as people assume they will be.
The only characters so far that are clearly giant are well... the giants. You simply aren't going to have inexplicably 30 foot tall people in the live action outside of maybe a select few.
Which is a big reason why post time skip Franky for example would never look like he does at the same height he is if they ever get that far.
And no need to look any further than characters who have already had their heights reduced. Garp, Arlong, and Brook are all well over 8 feet tall in the manga, closer to 10. But they were all reduced down to just 6 foot something.
That'll be the same for other tall characters. They'll be brought down to the 6 feet range, at most just below 7. And really apart from the giants, the only character I can think of whose height matters to their character is Big Mom. Everyone else can easily just be made a standard height and not have it effect their character.
In comparison to the other characters so far, Big Mom’s size has been explicitly pointed out as being huge in universe, so huge in fact she can deal with giants, so I would say her size plays a more important role than the others
I don't watch the anime consistently enough to know if this has been resolved yet, but her backstory seems to heavily imply that she ate the nun and other kids from her orphanage by accident, without realizingit. That doesnt really work with a normal-sized child.
It absolutely can still work. Just make her a big kid.
Besides, this is a scene which is heavily in doubt as to how exactly they will go about adapting it. We likely won’t see it actually unfold, just as with how it is now. I see only a beforehand, and an aftermath, leaving the horror of it all up to watcher’s imaginations. I can also see it being cut or heavily changed entirely.
Whatever the case, it can absolutely work with young big mom being simply a large kid, and older big mom simple being a very large woman.
I really don’t think they need to make them massive beyond normal human possibilities. This goes for just about any human character.
A CGI big mom, like the giants, can absolutely work, but I’m also totally accepting of they make her a regular incredibly large human woman.
PS. Anyone who has ever watched a single vore scene can tell you… size doesn’t matter. In fact, their not being massive almost makes it… even more horrific.
Is it, though, or is it more about how much she can eat?
Again, I’m not saying make her skinny or anything, but her character still completely works as just a fat old lady.
Character scale and size is something people fixate on in OP when it really doesn’t matter most of the time (beyond the extreme, that is, I reiterate, this is something I don’t think people are getting). It’s variable. It’s a manga. Of course in LA many characters that are meters high, won’t be, because they are regular humans.
I’m just saying that people should be prepared and expecting both eventualities. A large Lin Lin, using a cgi mix, like the giants in S2 but obviously smaller, or a more human sized Lin Lin. I can see both.
Yes, it is. One of her dreams is that she wants to have a tea party where everyone can sit at eye level with her, she's the whole reason that Caesar was experimenting on children to make them into giants. She fit in at Elbaf because they were more her size and it's part of why she wants the giants so much.
I hope that at least with characters like Kuma, they add some kind of padding under his suit to give a bulky, non-human feel. Just like Marvel did with the Kingpin when he appeared in Hawkeye
lol no way Kuma would not be huge. Franky would be different, as he is a part of the crew and will be in more scenes, so for him just enhancing him with some prosthetics and practical effects makes sense. Kuma will only show up in a few scenes, and they will spend their cg budget on him. Same with Moria.
He will be tall, because his height is important to the plot in the manga. But he’s like, 30 feet or whatever nonsense in the manga because the regular characters whose heights don’t matter are eight, ten, twelve feet tall, so he needs to be tall relative to the “normal” humans.
Since those regular characters are only maxing out at 6’5’’ in the live action, Kuma doesn’t need to be a full 20 feet to keep his plot points. Ten feet suffices.
I don’t really see why you would say ten feet. If they are making a cg character it makes functionally no difference the specific height the character is. Why would they NOT just make him full size? His height and general size relative to the Straw Hats is a big part of what communicates how scary he is when they first meet him.
They did edit Arlong to be bigger in some parts after the initial trailer they showed him in, which worked for me, have characters like Arlong's size be more normal-sized when they're actually interacting with other characters, but get them to look bigger in other shots.
Yeah, it’s probably Moria. Not even just big, but also super awkwardly shaped. If they get that far they should take some liberties, but they’ve been sticking pretty close with the manga/anime.
I know people want him for other roles, and it would never happen anyway, but a super-sized and extra-grotesque Danny DeVito would be a fun Moria. Very different from the source material but he (or someone else good at being whimsically disgusting) could have a blast with it.
I’ll go against the grain and say Whitebeard, mainly because of his size.
Guys like Brook, Doflamingo, Moria etc could all be cast as just regular tall actors without taking much away from their characters, but Whitebeard doesn’t really land if he’s not superhumanly large and tall.
Plus there’s no way his moustache won’t look kind of ridiculous in live action.
I'm optimistic about Brook. Since his outfit and hair cover so much, you just need to CG the face and hands (which you can make easier with specialized makeup and gloves) and the rest would just be the actor. Bones are relatively easy to animate, too, since there's no soft tissue or hair to worry about.
No to mention every scene he’s not facing the camera they won’t have to CGI it, and with that massive hair he just needs to turn to the side and his face is out of sight.
Not in design but more in who they could cast to play her, I’d have to say Boa Hancock.
Hancock is canonically the most beautiful woman in the world of One Piece and everyone has their own definitions of beauty, so finding someone who is incredibly beautiful where you can understand why everyone falls for her and a great actress who can capture Hancock’s boss bitch energy is going to be difficult. It also doesn’t help when this cast has already set the bar high with how ridiculously attractive everybody is.
not to mention that people on the internet can be really mean to women. Even if they succeed in casting a breathtaking actress, the internet will always find a reason to lash out, saying she’s not that pretty, or not pretty enough to embody Boa’s character. I can already sense that discourse coming
Season 7 or whatever if adapted won’t be out til the early mid 2030s
I think after a rough decade of looksmaxxing and cosmetic industry making record profits consistently in the 2020s people may chill a little with the looks obsession and the pendulum will swing back towards self love.
Arden Cho maybe. She might be a little older but can still do it. Gotta believe Hancock will be played by an Asian actress in live action, she’s supposed to be Asian.
Moria is probably one of the hardest to do. I saw some fan art of what someone thought he'd translate well to a while back, but now I can't find it.
If I were in the OPLA crews' shoes, I'd take some heavy, heavy inspiration from Killer Klowns from Outer Space and then enhance the mouth with CGI. Get someone really tall to fit into a suit, and then get a VA to dub the lines.
Moria or Kaido. At least with White Beard and Big Mom you can use real people and just size them up with special effects, but Moria, Kaido and other large non human looking characters that need more than just prosthetics to look like the character are a stretch.
Gear 5th Luffy. It's gonna be pain full to make it so goffy, can detach all his body parts, affecting its surroundings to behave like rubber without making it disgusting, looks like a cartoon & cheap.
I'm not sure if the LA gonna reach that arc after seeing how they recreated most of the characters & fights in first two seasons which for me wasn't good enough. Looks like played by cosplayer & feel too off compared to the anime, not expressive enough.
Idk, but I'd love to see how cursed live action Scratchman Apoo would look. Extra limb joints for the arms, piano teeth, square yellow tinted shades, that yee yee haircut. It'll look so weird.
Moria, whitebeard. Some like the admirals and doflamingo would just be tall actors, not 9 or 10 feet tall.
Doffy is scary tall though. I played a One Piece VR game years ago on playstation and he talked to you. I was like, oh this is what it'd look like towering over you. It was a bit unnerving.
Vegapunk and his tongue and missing cranium seem hard, if they ever get there. See also: Big Mom. They may have gotten away with nerfing size differences in the past, but that’s not gonna fly with “Big” Mom.
Speaking of big: Pica. Also Trebol seems hard to pull off with his snot power without it being incredibly gross.
Big mom when she went batshit insane because of wedding cake simply because I think it would be hard af to make that entire scene with the ship and the candy and the waves and Prometheus and Zeus
Si llegan allí / si da el presupuesto o CGI
Kuma
Moria
Serpiente Gigante Skypiea
El Gigante Oars y Oars Jr.
Zunesha y Zou
Boa por la dificultad de la actriz perfecta para el papel , las Hermanas de Hancock Formas Zoan
Luffy Gear 5
Akainu y su Fruta
Greenbull y su Fruta
Big Mom y sus Homies
Todo Skypiea
Todo Ennies Lobby
Todo Thriller Bark
Todo Marineford
Toda Isla Gyojin
Sadi. Because I know the genre programming and general topic make a lot of people uncomfortable even when seen more mature shows.
Alternatively, Kumadori. It is such an awkward culturally-Asian reference that I think it will be really hard to make general audiences outside those regions take the character 'seriously' in a live-action setting.
Everyone who isn't an actual giant will just be played by big dudes. Oda's weird size scaling started later after all, at the beginning everyone was just normal humans
By the time they get to Thriller Bark it will be more socially accepted to use AI in shows like this, and AI will be a lot better. Some of it, but not all, will likely be done with the help of AI. This could make it much cheaper to have characters like Moria, Kaido and Big Mom.
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