Joseph Luster
July 11, 2025 
Netflix is working on a live-action Solo Leveling, and the series’ lead actor has officially been found. Byeon Woo-seok (20th Century Girl) will star as Jin-woo Sung in the series, which has Lee Hae-jun (Castaway on the Moon) and Kim Byunseo (Ashfall) directing.
Following reports as far back as October 2023, Kakao Entertainment confirmed that a live-action adaptation was in the works in January 2024. At that time it was just in the planning, development and writing stages and had no actors attached.
There’s currently no word on when to expect it.
The story got its start as a web novel by Chugong. It later got a comic adaptation, and finally the current anime. The novels (along with audiobook editions) and the comics with art by DUBU (who has unfortunately passed away) are all available in America thanks to Yen Press. In Japan, the series is known as Ore Dake Level-Up na Ken (translated as I’m the Only One Who Has Leveled Up).
Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow-, the new season of the anime, streamed in Winter 2025, and the Solo Leveling -ReAwakening- compilation movie was briefly screened in American theaters in December.
Crunchyroll is currently streaming the anime, and gave this description for its plot:
Solo Leveling Plot
They say whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, but that’s not the case for the world’s weakest hunter Sung Jinwoo. After being brutally slaughtered by monsters in a high-ranking dungeon, Jinwoo came back with the System, a program only he could see, that’s leveling him up in every way. Now, he’s inspired to discover the secrets behind his powers and the dungeon that spawned them.
Source: Anime News Network
