News website Variety announced that Amazon is producing a live-action series based on the manga written by Kaiu Shirai and illustrated by Posuka Demizu, Yakusoku no Neverland.
According to the report, Meghan Malloy will be writing the scripts for the series, under the direction and executive production of Rodney Rothman, with Masi Oka as executive producer in conjunction with Roy Lee and Miri Yoon. Fox 21 Television Studios and Amazon Studios will be in charge of production. Mallow and Rothman previously worked together on the movie Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse.
On the other hand, Oka is a renowned actor who has been nominated for both the Emmy Awards and the Golden Globes, and is known for his role in the NBC series, Heroes. In addition, he also produced the live-action film for the Death Note manga, as well as the franchise-based film Mega Man and Shingeki no Kyojin.
About Yakusoku no Neverland
Shirai and Demizu began publishing the manga in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in August 2016, and the series entered its final arc since September 2018. In August 2019, it was announced that the manga had entered its plot climax. The publisher published the eighteenth compilation volume on March 4 and the manga will end this month.
The play inspired an anime adaptation released in January 2019. A live-action film with slight plot modifications will be released on December 18. A second season of the anime was confirmed to premiere in October 2020, but due to Japan's current health situation, it will now be released in January 2021.
Source: Variety
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