Brandon Sanderson Explains Why He Chose the One Piece Studio to Adapt His Epic Sci-Fi Series

It was precocious announced that Brandon Sanderson would beryllium moving with Tomorrow Studios connected an adaptation of his fashionable YA bid Skyward. The quality was a spot of a astonishment for fans who person been pursuing the author's advancement connected the Mistborn screenplay. But dissimilar Sanderson's Apple TV woody for his Cosmere projects, the Skyward TV bid does not presently person a streaming work attached.

"I really started gathering with them (Tomorrow Studios) similar 4 our 5 years ago," Sanderson said successful his latest YouTube update, "It was close aft the One Piece tv amusement came retired that I sat down earnestly with them. I'd taken immoderate meetings earlier, but this was the archetypal clip I'm like, 'All right, you truly tin marque things that are good."

Season 1 of the One Piece live-action amusement was archetypal released connected Netflix backmost successful August 2023 and rapidly became 1 of the astir fashionable shows connected the streaming service. The 2nd play of the adaptation was releases earlier this twelvemonth and was critically received adjacent amended than the archetypal season. IGN's reappraisal of play 2 called it "nothing abbreviated of a miracle" acknowledgment to however good it adapts Eiichiro Oda's absurd cartoony satellite helium created.

"There's a truly chill exec determination that I similar a lot. We talked for a agelong portion and yet we said yes," explains Sanderson astir the partnership, "So that's been successful the works for a rather a portion and we present picked our showrunners. It's Mo and Jed. They were the showrunners of Agents of Shield and they are fantastic people. They've been truly bully to enactment with an truthful we're moving connected that."

Sanderson is of people talking bout Jed Whedon and Maurissa "Mo" Tancheroen here, who worked connected the Marvel spin-off bid betwixt 2013 and 2020. For those who don't retrieve Agents of Shield, it was 1 of the much fashionable Marvel shows connected TV earlier the Disney+ epoch of originals kicked disconnected successful 2021 with Wandavision.

In summation to providing much accusation astir the Skyward adaptation, Sanderson besides addressed that helium has been overly engaged with Hollywood lately, saying: "I bash committedness I'm getting backmost to the books precise soon." During his update past week, helium confirmed that helium plans connected starting enactment connected Ghostbloods revisions again successful July, which is the adjacent epoch of his Mistborn series.

Jacob Kienlen is simply a Senior Audience Development Strategist and Writer for IGN. Born and raised successful Portland, Oregon, helium has considered the Northwest his location for his full life. With a bachelor's grade successful connection and 10 years of nonrecreational penning experience, his expertise is dispersed crossed a assortment of antithetic popular civilization topics -- from TV bid to books and the latest Pokémon games.