One Piece (2026 film)

One Piece is a 2026 swashbuckler action film directed and produced by Pablo Larraín, based off the franchise of the same name created by Eiichiro Oda, with a screenplay by Stuart Beattie and Dave Callaham. A co-production between the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Chile, France, and Japan, this film follows Luffy, an upcoming pirate who has the power to stretch his body whenever he wants. When Aralog, a shark humanoid attacks Luffy's town, he has to team up with the Straw Hat Pirates to defeat Aralog and his pirate crew.

George Miller and Doug Mitchell, the producers of the Mad Max franchise, bought the rights to One Piece in the summer of 2023, and Pablo Larraín set to direct in 2024. The filming was a troubled shoot, it took place in France near the Mediterranean Sea, and most people working on the movie either got scurvy or just left the project entirely.

The film was released on Memorial Day weekend in the United States by Warner Bros Pictures.

Plot
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Cast

 * Dylan O'Brien as Monkey D. Luffy
 * Scott Eastwood as Roronoa Zoro
 * Natalie Portman as Nami
 * Karan Brar as Usopp
 * Orlando Bloom as Sanji
 * Dolph Lundgren as Franky
 * Maisie Williams as Nojiko
 * Christina Hendricks as Boa Hancock
 * Ian Sinclair as the voice of Brook
 * Brina Palencia as the voice of Tony Tony Chopper
 * Rupert Friend as Aralog
 * Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Command Smoker
 * Ken Watanabe as Gol D. Roger
 * Toby Kebbell as Akainu

Development
In November 2023, producers George Miller and Doug Mitchell brought the rights to the One Piece anime franchise. Before that, Mitchell had pitched a live action TV show adaption of One Piece to Netflix, but was declined, since Tomorrow Studios was planning their own show. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros. C.E.O. Ann Marie Sarnoff said that this movie would not tie into the Netflix TV show, and it will be it's own standalone adventure. In December, Stuart Beattie and Dave Callaham were announced as screenwriters. For the director's role, many well-known people were being considering for the task, such as Adam Wingard, David Yates, Christopher Nolan, Shunji Iwai, Ron Howard, Matt Reeves, Joseph Kosinski, Josie Rourke, and Baz Luhrmann. However, Pablo Larraín eventually joined as a director in January 2024. Larrain brought a lot of his collaborators onto the project, including cinematographer Stephane Fontaine, his brother Juan as a producer, production designer Guy Hendrix Dyas, film editor Sebastián Sepúlveda, and finally actress Natalie Portman. Jared Stern performed an uncredited rewrite.

Casting
In late January 2024, Dylan O'Brien was the first to join the cast in January 29, 2024, revealing his role as Monkey D. Luffy. Josh Peck, Charlie Hunnam, Bobby Cannavale, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, and Lukas Haas had been considered the role of Luffy before O'Brien. In February 2, 2024, Scott Eastwood also joined the cast for the film as Roronoa Zero. The same day, Natalie Portman, who was Jacqueline Kennedy, in one of Larrain's films, Jackie (2016) was revealed to be Nami. Karan Brar eventually joined the cast for the film in February 9, 2024. In February 14, 2024, Rupert Friend was eventually revealed to have been joined the cast in an undisclosed villain role. O'Brien described Friend's character as a powerful, complex, and sinister captain. Miller revealed the villain group known as The Rushmore Pirates. Orlando Bloom also joined the cast for the film in February 23, 2024. Maisie Williams and Christina Hendricks was cast in undisclosed roles in March 3, 2024. The same day, Michael "The Miz" Mizanin joined the cast in an undisclosed role but was replaced by Dolph Lundgren due to The Miz' busying on WWE wrecking show in the stage of WWE. Jeffrey Dean Morgan revealed that he was playing Command Smoker, inspired by the manga series version of Smoker in March 7, 2024. Smoker was used for the another Japanese name of One Piece anime series, Dean Morgan also said to call his character "Smoker." And then, Ken Watanabe and Toby Kebbell were cast as Gol D. Roger and Akainu in March 18, 2024. In a news article on Deadline, Mitchell revealed that he removed the character Jinbe due to the casting process not going well, due to many actors declining the role, including John Turturro and Benedict Cumberbatch. To compromise for this, the writers decided to fuse him with Aralog. Finally, in January 2026, Ian Sinclair and Brina Palencia (who both voiced the 2 characters in the English dub of One Piece) were cast later on.

Filming
The film had a troubled production, as producer Doug Mitchell said in an interview with Collider, a month after the movie released:

"Everything that went wrong did go wrong. Some people working on the film either got scurvy or left entirely due to scheduling issues. Not everything is fair, especially when you're filming a movie this big."

- Doug Mitchell

Filming began in February 1, 2025 and wrapped on October 7, 2025. It was shot at the Mediterranean Sea near France, using a custom made boat the Straw Hat Pirates used in the original manga and anime. Art director Christian Alzmann took the design of the Going Merry, and redesigned it to look like a more traditional pirate ship. Some of the shots Larraín used required a helicopter, using a Sony PMW-F55 Super 35 4K Recorder to use during filming. As for Luffy's town, it was filmed in Martha's Vineyard in the Massachusetts Sea. Filming was also shot in Fraser Island in Queensland, Australia.

Visual effects
The visual effects were done by DNEG, Moving Picture Company, Rising Sun Pictures, BUF Compagnie, Digital Domain, and Industrial Light & Magic. There was also motion capture performance by Kevin Spirtas and Doug Jones to use the two characters between Tony Tony Chopper and Brook, by Sony Pictures Imageworks over 1,505 visual shots.

Music
The film score was composed by Trevor Morris, who replaced Steve Jablonsky and Trevor Gureckis on January 2026. The end credit sequences would originally used have been "Shot Me Down" by David Guetta and Skylar Grey and "Flames" by David Guetta and Sia, but due to copyright issues by David Guetta, it was changed to an orchestral version of the One Piece theme song. The film score was released in May 15, 2026 by WaterTower Music.