 Amazon is developing a live-action series based on Kaiu Shirai and Posuka Demizu's Yakusoku no Neverland (The Promised Neverland) manga, according to entertainment news website The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday.Rodney Rothman and Meghan Malloy, known for their works in Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse, are directing and penning the show, respectively. Rotham and Malloy are also serving as executive producers alongside Masi Oka (Death Note), and Vertigo Entertainment's Roy Lee (The Grudge) and Miri Yoon (Polaroid). Fox21 Television Studios and Amazon Studio are producing the series, which will be released on Amazon's Prime Video platform. Synopsis At Grace Field House, life couldn't be better for the orphans! Though they have no parents, together with the other kids and a kind "Mama" who cares for them, they form one big, happy family. No child is ever overlooked, especially since they are all adopted by the age of 12. Their daily lives involve rigorous tests, but afterwards, they are allowed to play outside. There is only one rule they must obey: do not leave the orphanage. But one day, two top-scoring orphans, Emma and Norman, venture past the gate and unearth the harrowing secret behind their entire existence. Utilizing their quick-wittedness, the children must work together to somehow change their predetermined fate. [Written by MAL Rewrite] Shirai and Posuka began serializing the fantasy thriller manga in Weekly Shounen Jump in August 2016. Shueisha released the 18th volume on March 4, with the 19th volume scheduled for release on July 3 (pictured). Yakusoku no Neverland has a cumulative 21 million copies of its volumes in circulation worldwide. VIZ Media distributed the first three chapters of the manga in English alongside the Japanese release as a part of its Jump Start initiative and subsequently serialized it in their digital Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. The company now publishes the series simultaneously on its new Shounen Jump platform. The 15th volume went on sale on June 2. A 12-episode television anime adaptation produced by CloverWorks aired in Winter 2019. A second season was originally slated for Fall 2020, but has since been delayed to Winter 2021 due to the effects of the COVID-19. Shueisha announced a Japanese live-action film adaptation in September 2019, which will open in theaters on December 18. Source: Comic Natalie, The Hollywood Reporter News submitted by Aiimee |
VindstotMar 4, 2021 10:03 PM
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| Yet another series gets the Hollywood treatment. I feel like this could work with the right budget and time but I’ll be keeping my hopes minimal at best. |
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| Will they cast kids or will they cast teens ? I have a bad feeling about this |
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| I think with the first arc its gonna work. With how TPN is similar to western series and movies. |
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| Why? Why? just why? |
You mean cast people in their twenties and call them teens. |
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| I'm really trying to believe this will be good... that I will enjoy it... I loved the manga... I thought the anime was damn good but even that left out the internal dialogue, and wasn't nearly as good... How can Hollywood make it even worse!? Spider-Verse, maybe it's good... Death Note, how can it be good!? I'm really doing my best here to believe. |
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| To be honest i have never seen one live action based on manga/anime that i like, just hope isnt that bad. |
ahneeme said: have you ever considered that maybe, just maybe, the majority of opinions isn't the same as yours?why does this 💩 get so much traction? Have people not read this atrocity past the first two arcs? |
| one piece episode 321 15:46 (or 16:33) you're welcome |
| I don't understand why everything needs a damn live action movie -_- |
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| Tbh i think this really, REALLY could work out fine. Especially since in the first arc, there wasn't much demon appearances... But let's see... After all, this means we got two live action of the same source material... |
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ahneeme said: or maybe no opinion is wrong and everyone has a different one?shuu-tsukiyama said: have you ever considered that maybe, just maybe, the majority of opinions isn't the same as yours? no because those opinions are wrong |
| one piece episode 321 15:46 (or 16:33) you're welcome |
| But why. I don't understands who wants this. |
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| Be right back, gotta wash the puke from my mouth. |
 "They escaped the weight of darkness, to forge a path into the marrow of the spirit. They chose to drown in a deeper vacancy, an emptiness that quells the null, a pool for the forgotten..." |
| can't wait to see 25 years olds playing 12 year olds |
| For some reason the premise sounds harder to fuck up than other adaptations. The first season at least (I haven't read the book) isn't very FX heavy, it features a multiracial cast that hollywood loves lately and it can capitalize on the little kids hype (kek that sounds wrong) with stranger things. Also kaiu and posuka are some weird ass names. |
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| No, just no. Who thought this was a good idea? Not everything can be made into a live-action, let alone a Hollywood live-action. I don't need Amazon screwing up everything, we've already got Netflix for that. |
OrangeJuicelolJun 11, 2020 3:53 AM
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| Let me guess... They will complain that all the actors need to be Asians, then they make the female lead in a sexually ambiguous black girl, and make one of the guys Asian and one Mexican, and at least one of them is gay or queer. Instead of females the orphanage will be administered by a Caucasian man, and all the demons will actually white men with horns... A decade ago I really wanted anime adaptations done by Hollywood, but now I just wish they would forget that Japan even exist... at least until Western peoples grow some ball and send the woke movement to trash. |
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| Amazon shows tend to be pretty good from what ive seen so lets hope this also turns out well. |
| Ah yes, child actors. What could possibly go wrong? |
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| And it will suck as do all live action remakes |
| As much as I dislike live-action adaptations of any kind, I can understand why Amazon decided to go with this series. The premise feels similar to those dark fantasy stories saturating the western young adult genre. Don't have much hope for it turning out good, though. Only silver lining I can think of is that Amazon had the incentive to pick up the golden gem that is Vinland Saga. |
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| SPIDER-VERSE DIRECTOR LES GOOOO |
kronopy said: Let me guess... They will complain that all the actors need to be Asians, then they make the female lead in a sexually ambiguous black girl, and make one of the guys Asian and one Mexican, and at least one of them is gay or queer. Instead of females the orphanage will be administered by a Caucasian man, and all the demons will actually white men with horns... A decade ago I really wanted anime adaptations done by Hollywood, but now I just wish they would forget that Japan even exist... at least until Western peoples grow some ball and send the woke movement to trash. But this kind of trash is also nice. Nice that they pay the creators but everyone will hate their pc bs. People who want to watch garbage will watch garbage, and it's profitable to make it. If you want quality you have to stick to the original. |
| Can Hollywood just come up with new, original stories and leave the manga/anime stuff alone please.... |
| People on MAL refuse to actually enjoy watching anime. Your taste in anime isn't a personality trait. MAL is literally just anime Twitter as its own website lol. |
| This sounds like a complete trainwreck waiting to happen to the point that I'm actually kind of excited to see it lol The main cast is either going to be child actors or 20 year olds cast as 12 year olds, and I can't tell which would be worse |
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| I like The Promised Neverland a lot, but this is a hard pass for me. Absolutely not. I wish Hollywood and their ilk would stay away from anime/manga. Especially with their recent tendencies to screw up and twist the many well loved series/franchises they get their hands on. |
| All I have to say is that The west will not like the Portrayal of sister krone. For obvious reasons |
| HACKs! 🤢🤮 |
kronopy said: Let me guess... They will complain that all the actors need to be Asians, then they make the female lead in a sexually ambiguous black girl, and make one of the guys Asian and one Mexican, and at least one of them is gay or queer. Instead of females the orphanage will be administered by a Caucasian man, and all the demons will actually white men with horns... A decade ago I really wanted anime adaptations done by Hollywood, but now I just wish they would forget that Japan even exist... at least until Western peoples grow some ball and send the woke movement to trash. You should probably calm down dude. You're making like 20 assumptions based on your own preconceived notions. It's kinda why the MAL forums are trash, so many angry dudes complaining about SJW's, of which they've only seen on youtube and not real life. It'll probably be shit but not because of "PC culture", it'll be because they give it the Hollywood treatment with shitty one liners and hollow character rewrites like DBZ or GitS. It's more likely they make it a copy of maze runner or hunger games than it is they cast diverse characters to be "PC". |
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| I wonder how they'll mess this one up... kronopy said: Let me guess... They will complain that all the actors need to be Asians, then they make the female lead in a sexually ambiguous black girl, and make one of the guys Asian and one Mexican, and at least one of them is gay or queer. Instead of females the orphanage will be administered by a Caucasian man, and all the demons will actually white men with horns... A decade ago I really wanted anime adaptations done by Hollywood, but now I just wish they would forget that Japan even exist... at least until Western peoples grow some ball and send the woke movement to trash. OMG don't give them ideas! |
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| Am I the only one who's actually excited about these news? This is probably one of the most suited manga series ever to be turned into a western live-action. I just hope that the characters are actually children, portrayed by good child-actors. I expect a vibe like Strange Things. |
Wildcat17 said: Am I the only one who's actually excited about these news? This is probably one of the most suited manga series ever to be turned into a western live-action. I just hope that the characters are actually children, portrayed by good child-actors. I expect a vibe like Strange Things. If they give it a Stranger things treatment, it could be great (despite some awful cgi demons) but I still wouldn´t set my expectations that high. |
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| Tbf this series seems will not be that hard to make as live action, i agree if they give Stranger Things treatment it could be great, but even if in a lower budget it'll be fine, but we'll see... |
| I just know this will be complete shit and even more so when I read this: "Rotham and Malloy are also serving as executive producers alongside Masi Oka (Death Note)" The Death Note live action is an abomination. So I already see this live action already at a level close to trash before it even aired. Live actions always turn to shit. Never get your hopes up with these things. Have the lowest of the low expectations. |
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| Obligatory there's no such thing as good live action comment. |
| "Amazon is developing a live-action series based on Kaiu Shirai and Posuka Demizu's Yakusoku no Neverland (The Promised Neverland) manga, according to entertainment news website The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday." ::closes tab:: |
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