NETFLIX ORDERS LIVE-STATION ADAPATION OF KOREAN FANTASY SENSATION ‘Solo Leveling’ With Byeon Woo-Seok Set to Star

Netflix is ​​Leveling Up ITS Korean Content Slate Once Again, Commissioning A Live-action Adaptation of Solo LevelingThe Wildly Popular Web Novel, Webtoon and Anime Franchise That Has Become One of Korea’s Biggest Crossover Hits in Recent Years. The Fantasy-Ection Series Will Star Fast-Rising Actor Byeon Woo-Seok (LOVELY RUNNER, 20th Century Girl), with Production Led by Kakao Entertainment and Sanai Pictures.

Byeon, Who have Emerged as One of Korea’s Most in-Demand Young Stars, Has Long Been Fan-Cast in the Role of Sung Jin-Woo, Solo Leveling‘S Brooding Antihero. The Actor’s Striking Visual Presence-Described by Fans As “Straight Out of A Manhwa” (The Korean Word for Comics) Last Hope Against Supernatural Annihilation, Netflix Says.

Based on the Smash Hit Web Novel Publissed On Kakaoopoage, Solo Leveling Has Racked Up A Staggering 14.3 Billion Cumulative Views Globally Across It Various Formats. Earlier this year, Its Anime Adaptation Made History as the Firmstan IP-Basted Series to Sweep The 2025 Crunchyrol Anime Awards, Taking Home Nine Tropies, Incling Anime of The Ye.

Set in a World Where Portals Known As “Gates” Connect Reality to Deadly ALTERNATE DIMENSIONS, The Story Follows Sung Jin-Woo, an E-Rank Hunter Barely Strong. But after a brutal dungeon raid Nearly Kills HIM, JIN-WOO AWAKENS WITH A MYTERIES NEW ABITY: HE CAN “Level Up” in Power Thughh Combat, Gaining Strength Faster. As he grows, so too does the Scale of the Threat He Faces – Monstrous Invaders Pouring from the Gates Who Threaten to Obliterate Humanity Itelf.

The Series Will Be Co-Directed by Lee HAE-JUN AND KIM Byung-Seo, The Filmning Team Behind AshFall, Castaway on the moonand Like A Virgin. Netflix Says the Production Will Feature A World-Class Global VFX Team to Bring the Story High-Stakes Fantasy and Action Set-Pieces to Life.

Solo Leveling Joins Netflix’s Growing Arsenal of Premium Korean Genre Titles As It Seeks to Build Upon The Worldwide Expectations It Has Establized with Squid GameFollowing Recent Greenlights For Notes from the Last Row, The Rat (Wt) and LOVESTRUCKAmong Others. The Project Can Be Seen As Representing Not Only a Majoor Swing at the Live-directly Fantasy-directly Genre, But Also A Test of Korea’s Ongoing Effrts to Translate SERIE SERIOON SERIOON Audiences.