While Japan has a long tradition of live-action adaptations of manga and anime (many of which are great!), American audiences are mostly familiar with Hollywood’s horrendous failed attempts at the adaptations. Movies like Dragon Ball: Evolution, Ghost in the Shell, or Netflix's own adaptation of Cowboy Bebop, manage to be both terrible adaptations, and just bad stories on their own.

Now, director Marc Jobst, who has worked in some of the biggest genre shows of the past few years, from Daredevil to The Witcher, is tasked with bringing the single biggest manga of all time to live-action — One Piece. It is a daunting task, one that Jobst doesn't take lightly.

"The first question you got to ask is why do a live-action? " Jobst tells Inverse. "And you've got to have a good answer to that — not just because it could make us lots of money."

Inverse talks to Jobst about translating 2D physics to real-life, how he pulled off his most impressive shot in Daredevil, and his work on the doomed Netflix superhero show, Jupiter's Legacy.

By the time I finally got my first iPhone in the mid-2010s, I’d more or less lost interest in smartphones as anything beyond a means for calling, texting, and taking pictures.

The slab touchscreen form factor had fully taken over and the last holdouts of a more eccentric design era were gasping their final breaths. Spotting a physical QWERTY keyboard in the wild was like glimpsing a living fossil; sliding designs had faded mostly into memory. Phones on the whole were getting flatter and bigger, less weird and more rectangular, and that’s just the way it’d be. The term “phablet” emerged, and its influence has haunted me since.

Boring as it may be, the slab caught on and stuck around because it works. It’s functional and reliable — something many of the fun phones of yore were not as they so often sacrificed practicality for uniqueness and durability for intrigue. Long-term usability is important, increasingly so with ever-rising smartphone prices, and experimental phones tended not to deliver. This is a fact I begrudgingly accepted.

So, one day, faced with a homogenous spread of products in the store, I got an iPhone because it seemed sufficient, and moved on with my life. I didn’t love it, but I didn’t hate it, though the size increases with each subsequent generation grew to be a thorn in my side. An iPhone for me wasn't some grand revelation, it simply served its purpose.

Then, a few years later, foldables entered the picture, and quirky-but-compact phones were back on the table. And once I got a Galaxy Z Flip, I knew there was no going back to an iPhone, even for iMessage.