r/animenews • u/realplayer16 • Jul 10 '25

Live Action Netflix Produces Live-Action Solo Leveling Series, Reveals Byeon Woo-seok as Lead

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2025-07-09/netflix-produces-live-action-solo-leveling-series-reveals-byeon-woo-seok-as-lead/.226496
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u/DavidBuzzed Jul 10 '25 edited Jul 10 '25

Bruh they would need some serious budget to replicate the action scenes.... But I seriously believe some things are better to leave them as Anime/animated, especially Solo leveling 😅

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u/niceidot Jul 11 '25

They'd need a tone of money just to make the monsters look good. Nevermind the fight scenes.

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u/imJGott Jul 10 '25

Who is asking for a live action of this? People like the anime and the web comic.

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u/theGRAYblanket Jul 10 '25

Yea this is actually so fucked. 

I'm still pissed they made TWO kakeguri live action shows.. one with Japanese cast and another with American cast 

Like give us another season what the fuck are you even doing 

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u/imJGott Jul 10 '25

I’ll take a live action of “A Silent Voice” since it’s based in real reality that people can all relate to.

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u/theGRAYblanket Jul 10 '25

I feel like anime romcoms def work best for live adaptions 

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u/Secure_Librarian4871 Jul 10 '25

Seriously, why?!

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u/PenguinBread Jul 10 '25

they think animation is an inferior medium that's why they pumping out live action stuff as soon as an anime has success. They think they make even more money if it's a "real" show.

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u/Thunderfan4life15 Jul 10 '25

It’s a kdrama, it’s not gonna be a massive budget. It will be severely toned down for sure.

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u/No-Pop6450 Jul 12 '25

They’ve completely miss understood why this show is so popular

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u/snakeeyes23356 Jul 10 '25

Give it high budget and maybe it will work

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u/Capital-Frosting-434 Jul 13 '25

I mean, South Korea has a solid film industry and has gifted us with Bong Joon-Ho and Squid Game, so like ... I think if the production team on this is Korean, it *might* have a chance. But given the sheer number of fantasy-heavy fight scenes in SL, turning this into anything other than a CGI-saturated slopfest with no reason to exist is a tall order, so there would have to be an insane CGI budget and/or excellent fight choreography and tweaks to the plot to avoid the parts that would look atrocious in live action, for this to be remotely good.