One Piece stars publicly beg Danny DeVito to come be on their show
One Piece stars Iñaki Godoy and Jacob Romero have both publicly petitioned Danny DeVito to come be a live-action anime man
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Netflix’s live-action One Piece series, having overcome the first-season hump that’s killed a number of its live-action anime brethren—hey there, corpse of the Cowboy Bebop adaptation—now apparently has a bit of room to flex. Stars Iñaki Godoy and Jacob Romero (who play Luffy and Usopp on the show) were on hand on the red carpet this weekend to show animation-to-real-life solidarity with Netflix’s new Avatar: The Last Airbender show… and also to do a bit of fan-casting for their own series, straight-up begging everyone’s favorite aging comedy star/internet foot model, Danny DeVito, to come be in One Piece.
As it happens, the internet already has a fair amount of fan-casting of DeVito in One Piece floating around on it. (At the risk of being mean, his overall appearance lines up pretty well with creator Eiichiro Oda’s general aesthetic of stylized human forms—which is to say that DeVito already looks a bit like an old anime man.) And it’s not like he’s not game to do something weird or a bit out-there, even at age 79; his gameness for weirdness is how we got the incredible gift of his decade-plus on It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, after all.)
Godoy and Romero didn’t get specific about who they’d want DeVito to play. (One Piece has, roughly, a jillion characters to choose from, so the sky’s probably the limit.) Meanwhile, the series has already gotten at least one other celebrity petition to appear, having previously fielded some strongly worded requests from fan Jamie Lee Curtis to come appear at some point during its well-received run.
Avatar releases its first season on February 22; meanwhile, no word yet when season 2 of One Piece, DeVito’d or not, will arrive on the streamer.
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So ask his agent and offer a lot of money
Just double check the contract before you sign.
Well, I mean he’s an interesting choice for Tony Tony Chopper, but I’m sure he’ll kill it.
You know, for some reason I went straight there as well.
An even more interesting choice for Nico Robin.
Definitely in that mode where he hulks out for sure.
As a anime only OP fan who left off at the midpoint of Wano, the only charcters that come to mind for DeVito are Capone Bege(good body type match), Capt Foxy(feels like a DeVito kind of character), and the father of some of Big Mom’s kids whose name I blank on. None of those make sense though as they are all quite a ways off from being introduced.
Now, here me out
Better than my guesses. Totally forgot he existed.
“Totally forgot he existed” describes about 92% of One Piece characters…
As a non Anime watcher , that looks like Ron Perlman with a blue wig.
I mean there’s also Hogback which clearly takes inspiration from the Penguin.
Tony Tony Chopper baby. Not a voiceover, just get that man some antlers and let him go to town.
his gameness for weirdness is how we got the incredible gift of his decade-plus on It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, after all.I’m just taking the excuse to share this story about the one time he wasn’t game:https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/always-sunny-pranked-danny-devito-with-fake-episode-1234755942/ “So I read [the script] and I go to pick up a hooker and I get busted and I get raped in the jail, in a shower,” he said. “Then they throw me in the lockup, the big lockup. I get raped by everybody and the cops. And they kept going back to the bar and then Frank would get raped. And I go back to the bar, Frank would get raped. And I said, ‘What the fuck, man? Call my lawyer.’ Right? And then I got to the end of the script. And the last guy that nailed me leans in. Well, Frank is now laying on the ground, [his] face is on the ground. He’s been fucked by every… And the guy leans down and he says, ‘April fools, bitch.’ And I realized it was April 1st. They wrote this script in order to break my balls.”
I like the other story I heard about his hiring from an interview with Rob McElhenney that popped up in my Youtube feed the other day, where he says that after season 1 the president of the network suggesting Danny Devito to join the show and that they were against it because they thought it might disrupt the chemistry of the show and the president just dropped the pretense and told them that the show would be canceled if they didn’t bring on DeVito, so they did.
Well, they may have gotten Danny good with that fake script, but I don’t blame them. Danny’s got some really doozies of clauses in his contract.
“Why is Fred Savage here?” is extra funny now that he’s been accused of being some kinda sex pest.
Hughes, a white man, seeing two young PoC actors having fun and calling a famous actor to come guest star in their show: “They’re BEGGING”
You’re really desperate to find something to complain about, aren’t you?
Is your arm still in your socket after that reach?
The real ‘get’ would be Eminem as Enel.
Sam Elliott as Whitebeard.
You know, this is one of the few instances where the Millennial/GenZ idiotic hipster desire to see DeVito cast in every goddam thing actually makes sense.
I’m still mad he’s not the new Black Panther.
Imagine flexing that you don’t understand irony.
I think “hipster desire” covers it. But okay. Not sure that “flexing” is really the operative word either. But again, okay.
Honestly if they have to do live action anime remakes they would all benefit from Danny DeVito.Danny DeVito as Sailor Moon
Danny DeVito as Krillin
Danny DeVito as a Gundam
Danny DeVito as Totoro
Cowboy Bebop wouldn’t have crashed as hard if he would have been Faye.