The popular manga The Promised Neverland is being adapted into a live-action series at Amazon. The show is being helmed by Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse director and writer Rodney Rothman and Masi Oka, who played Hiro Nakamura on NBC's Heroes and Doctor Max Bergman on CBS's Hawaii Five-0.
Oka has developed several manga series for television, including Death Note for Netflix and Repeat for CBS, which was based on a Kurumi Inui manga.
Written by Kaiu Shirai and illustrated by Posuka Demizu, The Promised Neverland has been serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump since August of 2016. The manga follows a group of children living in Grace Field House, a lavish orphanage. While their life initially seems ideal, they soon discover that they are actually being raised as cattle, and are destined to be killed and sold to "higher" species. Upon learning this, they begin to plan their escape.
The Promised Neverland confirmed manga Chapter 181 would be the finale of the series, set to be released in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine.
An anime adaptation of The Promised Neverland premiered on Fuji TV in Japan in January of 2019, with an English version arriving on Cartoon Network/Adult Swim's Toonami block a few months later in April. The anime concluded its first season later that year, with the finale arriving in Japanese in March and in English in June. A second season was set to arrive in October of this year, but has been pushed back to January of 2021 as a result of the ongoing Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
(via Deadline)