Live-Action Solo Leveling Series Starring Byeon Woo-seok in the Works at Netflix

Netflix is doubling down connected its anime endeavors with a live-action Solo Leveling bid featuring Lovely Runner prima Byeon Woo-seok.

The streaming mega institution announced plans to make a amusement based connected the fashionable phantasy anime bid with a station connected its website today. Woo-seok volition represent pb quality Sung Jin-woo successful Netflix’s live-action Solo Leveling show, though further casting details person yet to beryllium revealed.

Byeon Woo-Seok. Photo by Han Myung-Gu/WireImage.

“Solo Leveling follows Sung Jin-woo, an E-rank Hunter – the lowest tier – who gains bonzer abilities aft a near-death experience,” a statement from the institution says. “As helium levels up, helium becomes humanity’s unexpected hope, defending against monstrous threats emerging from beyond the mysterious Gates.”

Netflix is staying quiescent erstwhile it comes to crippled accusation for now. However, the institution does committedness that fans tin expect “vivid characters, dynamic enactment sequences, and exhilarating quests, brought to beingness by a world-class planetary VFX team.” It’s a task that Netflix is peculiarly assured in, boasting that the live-action Solo Leveling bid volition acceptable “a caller modular for live-action adaptations.”

Solo Leveling got its commencement connected KakaoPage arsenic a Korean integer comic from writer Chugong successful 2016 and has since accumulated much than 14.3 cardinal views crossed the globe. It evolved into a wholly caller beast with the instauration of its anime adaptation successful aboriginal 2024, going connected to gain galore awards arsenic fans flocked to cheque retired its video game-inspired universe.

Solo Leveling was selected arsenic the 2025 Crunchyroll Anime Awards' Anime of the Year. pic.twitter.com/mNbCuk91PP

Netflix’s Solo Leveling volition beryllium co-directed by Lee Hae-jun and Kim Byung-seo, who antecedently worked unneurotic connected projects similar Castaway connected the Moon and Ashfall. Kakao Entertainment and Sanai Pictures volition nutrient the series. Netflix says Woo-seok – who has made a sanction for himself successful the past decennary with projects similar Soulmate, 20th Century Girl, and When Flowers Bloom, I Think of the Moon – volition “deliver an unforgettable portrayal of Jin-woo’s evolution.”

Netflix has not announced a merchandise day for its caller Solo Leveling series, but it’s astir apt harmless to expect that it won’t beryllium retired for a while. In the meantime, you tin work up connected however much than fractional of each Netflix subscribers ticker astatine slightest immoderate anime. You tin besides cheque retired our Solo Leveling Season 1 8/10 reappraisal here, and our Solo Leveling Season 2 premiere reappraisal here.

Photo by Han Myung-Gu/WireImage.

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