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Netflix Produces Live-Action Solo Leveling Series, Reveals Byeon Woo-seok as Lead
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Kakao Entertainment confirmed the live-action series on January 21. The company's media division is actively involved in the drama's planning, development, and scriptwriting.
In October 2023, French news website L'Internaute interviewed D&C WEBTOON creative director Heaeun Kwak, who initially revealed a live-action Korean adaptation of Solo Leveling in development.
Solo Leveling, based on a web novel of the same name, follows the journey of Jin-woo Sung, a weak hunter who gains mysterious powers and transforms into the strongest hunter. The WEBTOON adaptation has already been a massive success internationally, spawning games and an anime series.
The first season of the anime of writer Chugong and the late artist DUBU's (REDICE Studio) Solo Leveling webtoon debuted in Japan in January 2024. Crunchyroll added the English dub of the anime in the same month.
Solo Leveling -ReAwakening-, a compilation film for the Solo Leveling anime's first season and a preview of the first two episodes of the second season, screened in Japan from November 29 to December 12 last year. Crunchyroll and Sony Pictures screened Solo Leveling -ReAwakening- on December 6 in select theaters in the U.S. and Canada.
The second season debuted on January 4. Crunchyroll streamed the second season and also streamed an English dub.
The webtoon adaptation of Chugong's Solo Leveling novel series, with illustrations by DUBU, launched on WEBTOON in March 2018 and ended in December 2021. Yen Press publishes the manhwa version and original novel series in English in print, and several services including Tapas release the web novel and webtoon digitally. Kadokawa publishes the webtoon in Japanese under the title Ore Dake Level-Up na Ken (I'm the Only One Who Has Leveled Up).
