When you’re the star of an expensive series that’s airing on a streaming service with a habit for cancelling countless costly originals if they don’t perform to expectations, saying out loud you don’t want the show to overstay its welcome is tempting fate to a serious degree, although One Piece star Taz Skylar does have a point.
Eyebrows were raised recently when it was revealed the blockbuster-sized manga adaptation was reportedly setting Netflix back a whopping $18 million per episode, with the company’s $144 million potentially staring disaster in the face based on not just its failure to deliver worthy live-action updates of beloved stories set in the genre, but its approach to the fantastical in general.
Speaking to Collider, Skylar is happy for One Piece to tell the story that it wants to tell for as long as it takes to tell it, but he’s already wary of things being stretched out to the same extent as the source material – not that it will considering the manga boasts 105 volumes.
“I’d like it to go for exactly as long as it takes to feel like it’s come to an ending that all of us are happy – and by us, I mean the greater “us” of us five and every single person involved. I want everybody to be proud of where we end up ending. I don’t want it to end short, and I don’t want it to run long. That’s my ideal.”
We’ll see if the actor ends up getting his wish seeing as One Piece drops its first eight episodes on Netflix at the end of next month, where the waiting game will immediately begin to see if it manages to secure a renewal or join the dozens of other big budget exclusives on the one-and-done scrapheap.