The Promised Neverland may get its mainstream break as Amazon announces it's working on a live-action, English-language TV show based on the manga and anime series. The manga, written by Kaiu Shirai and illustrated by Posuka Demizu, was first released in 2016 and became a massive success. Over 20 million copies of the manga have been sold since its release. While the comics are coming to an end, the series lives on through the anime and perhaps a new live-action series.
According to Variety, the live-action series fronted by Amazon has an entirely different creative team from the manga. Rodney Rothman will direct The Promised Neverland TV show and serve as executive producer alongside Masi Oka and Roy Lee and Miri Yoon of Vertigo. Production studios Fox 21 Television Studios and Amazon Studios will also produce the series.
Meghan Molloy has been hired to write the script after working with Rothaman on Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. While Rothman and Molloy have never worked on an anime or manga-based series, the two have been working together ever since Molloy was hired as his writing assistant in 2015 making a strong creative team. Additionally Oka has previously produced the live-action film adaption of the anime series Death Note bringing the necessary experience to this creative team.
The Promised Neverland follows a group of the smartest kids at a seemingly perfect orphanage as they uncover its dark truth when they break a rule to never leave the orphanage grounds. Once the truth is discovered, they begin to plan an escape to save all of the children.
Source: Variety