r/animenews • u/Borgasmic_Peeza • Jan 22 '25

Live Action Solo Leveling Live-Action Adaptation Is Officially In The Works, Confirms Kakao Entertainment

https://animehunch.com/solo-leveling-live-action-adaptation-is-officially-in-the-works-confirms-kakao-entertainment/
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u/Slow-Foundation4169 Jan 22 '25

When will they learn

.....oh yeah, never

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u/ara-ara-spirit Jan 22 '25

Let's hope they can atleast maintain the standards of OPLA with this. But then...all those shadows, it will be so hard to reproduce

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u/Deus_Slothern Jan 22 '25

Alice in borderland was also solid, and for the most part it was accurate to the manga. 

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u/Sad-Jello629 Jan 22 '25

You are not familiar with Korean cinema I guess... The South Koreans are experts at making live-adaptations, and have been doing excelent work for like a long time. In the past few years, they have been adapting a lot of webtoons, and they are crazy good. I just finished the live-action of Moving and I was mindblown by the special effects. It had a fraction of the budget of a MCU blockbuster, yet it put any MCU movie to shame.

So yeah, I'm not worried.

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u/shaggymatter Jan 22 '25

Okay so why do most Korean TV shows i try to watch suck?

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u/Sad-Jello629 Jan 22 '25

Maybe you are just bad at picking any good one? XD Of all the Korean movies I ever watched, I remember only feeling like I wasted my time only twice in my recent memory.

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u/Slow-Foundation4169 Jan 22 '25

Webtoons.....ooof. lmfao

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u/Sad-Jello629 Jan 22 '25

Uh?

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u/Slow-Foundation4169 Jan 22 '25

Oh I think they are trash, also comparing making a live action of web toons to anime, not sooo good.

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u/Sad-Jello629 Jan 22 '25

I don't know, there are times when a live-action is better than an anime. The live-action of Alice in Borderlands for example, is net superior to the anime, and is even better than the manga.

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u/Slow-Foundation4169 Jan 22 '25

Ehh, I havnt seen Alice in borderlands, so ill have to take ur word on that one, but every other live action I've seen has been complete trash, even the Japanese romance anime live actions

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u/Sad-Jello629 Jan 23 '25

The Japanese are indeed bad at live-action adaptations. I was really shocked to see how good Alice in Borderlands was as a result. But I guess, because it was a Netflix adaptation, they had the budget, and they hired actual actors, which is why it worked. But the Koreans are very good at it. What the Koreans realized a long time ago, is that they shouldn't try to make a movie like the anime, and just adapt the story in a movie format, making all the changes necessary to feel natural. The Japanese try to be as loyal to the source material as possible, and the result is cringe. They also have very low budgets, which results in B-rank actors being hired, idols, and poor special effects. The Koreans have a strong acting industry, and are not greedy with the budgets either.

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u/Slow-Foundation4169 Jan 23 '25

I guess that's fair

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u/Many_Accident2071 Jan 22 '25

I don’t think any male actor can harness and contain sung Jin woo ‘s level of aura

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u/DependentFearless162 Jan 22 '25

Yeah they need to bring a cardboard cutout for that. SJW level of blandness isn't humanely possible.

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u/Agitated-Bowl7487 Jan 24 '25

it would be so cringe bruh like keeping that edgy face with glowing eyes lmaoo

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u/Sad-Jello629 Jan 22 '25

Kim Soo Hyun or Ahn Hyo Seop. Or maybe Lee Jae Wook, because he played a similar role before. Is not a very complicated role XD

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u/mr_snood_the_third Jan 22 '25

Another repost yaay

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u/Borgasmic_Peeza Jan 22 '25

Cope

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u/Inferno_Sparky Jan 22 '25

Imagine using that word in 2025

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u/i_dont_wanna_sign_up Jan 22 '25

I can't imagine how they will make the special effects look good.

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u/centalt Jan 22 '25

Such a mid manwha and anime. Some fights were good but you never feel like the MC is going to lose

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u/GavTheNugget Jan 22 '25

Yay, another live adaptation that i will definitely not watch.

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u/Cimorene_Kazul Jan 23 '25

I’ve only seen the movie for this series, but it was pretty dreadful - poor animation, awful characters, worse story and message. I imagine the comic was better, but this was such a generic concept that I can’t imagine it really deserved any of its popularity or acclaim, no matter how improved.

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u/SecretaryNo6911 Jan 25 '25

They is gonna be cringe lmao