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