The Promised Neverland

The Promised Neverland (2020)

約束のネバーランド

A number of children are being well fed, taken care of, and pampered at a very meticulate and managed orphanage. The facility and grounds are impressive, but the wall acting as a barrier is high. There is a secret to the place and once revealed to several orphans, they're desperate to escape.

Date of release
2020-12-18
TMDB
7.2 / 10 (70)
Runtime
1h 59m
Genres
Action, Fantasy, Mystery, Adventure, Thriller
Director
Yuichiro Hirakawa

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: The Promised Neverland

The Promised Neverland is a 2020 Japanese dark fantasy film. It is produced by Fuji Television, Office Crescendo and distributed by Toho. It is an adaptation of the manga series of the same name, created by Kaiu Shirai and Posuka Demizu. The story follows a group of the smartest kids at a seemingly perfect orphanage, who uncover its dark secret, and set in motion a dangerous and desperate escape plan.

Production

The film was announced in September 2019, with a planned release date in December 2020. it was announced that Yūichirō Hirakawa would direct the film, Ken Murase the producer with Noriko Gotou handling the film's script.

The idea to adapting The Promised Neverland manga series into a live-action film adaptation came up after Ken Murase, the producer of the film, read the series at the Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine, where the series is originally published in a weekly format. He thought that the story is very interesting and was admired by the imaginative skill of the original author Kaiu Shirai, so he decided to make it into a live-action film.

The film stars Minami Hamabe as Emma, Kairi Jo as Ray, Rihito Itagaki as Norman, Keiko Kitagawa as Isabella and Naomi Watanabe as Krone. The casting for Krone was met with controversy as the character is depicted being black in the manga and anime, while Watanabe herself is Japanese.

Production took place in Japan, and the filming occurred in the Important Cultural Property of Japan. The Grace Field House was photographed by adding a set to Tenkyokaku in Inawashiro Town, Fukushima Prefecture, the scenes such as the forest around the house was taken in Nagano Prefecture, Chino, Fujimi and Ina.

The 3DCG and VFX production visuals of the monsters and the backgrounds were made by the Japanese creative group "khaki", using Cinema 4D. It took about half a year to finish the CGI production, shooting began in the summer of 2019, and after the filming was over, the concept design was started in the autumn or winter of 2019, and the production was done in January to July 2020.

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