Amazon will be featuring a live action event series of Vertigo’s manga titled The Promised Neverland.
Masi Oka, an American actor, producer, and digital effects artist is teaming with Amazon. Masi Oka and the producers of ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse’ will be creating their own live-action adaptation of the Vertigo manga, The Promised Neverland. The manga is a story of a group of really smart orphans who discover a dark secret of the orphanage they are staying at. Once they know of the secret, they draw up a plan to free the rest of the children.
“The Japanese manga series The Promised Land has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide[…]The Promised Land is the latest Vertigo title to come to life at Amazon[…]Vertigo’s credits inlcude New Line’s It franchise, Netflix’s Death Note films as well as the Lego Movie franchise.”
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