As it hasn't been brought up, I would like to bring to attention the legendary Reverie stream from
September 21, 2020 in which the top YouTube One Piece reviewers/reactors gathered together for a big One Piece discussion but then got a surprise visit by the writer of the One Piece live action series:
Matt Owens.
In my opinion, this discussion/interview is essentially recommended viewing in order to get a more clearer grasp on what's going on behind the scenes of the live action series. Its very revealing of some of the considerations being made as well as the thought processes governing the writing.
Matt Owens comes on at
54:35 and leaves at
1:52:15 (but I think
1:53:37 is a good stopping point for the lolz).
If
marvelB could append this info to the first post, that would be swell.