Netflix Announces Full Solo Leveling Live-Action Cast

On October 7, 2026, the rest of the main cast of the Solo Leveling live-action television series

This follows the announcement of Byeon Woo-seok as the protagonist Sung Jin-woo on July 9, 2025.

Filming for the series began around April 2026.

Based on production leaks, the series is set to have a total of 7 episodes.

As the standard K-drama/Netflix length is roughly 50 to 75 minutes per episode, this means this will adapt all of Season 1 of the anime adaptation but may possibly extend a bit beyond that and the casting announcement seems to support this.

Cast

• Han So-hee (My Name, Gyeongseong Creature) as Cha Hae-in
• Kang You-seok (When Life Gives You Tangerines, Resident Playbook) as Yoo Jinho
• Sung Joon (The Fiery Priest 2, Island) as Woo Jinchul
• Lee Sung-min (No Other Choice, 12.12: The Day, Teach You a Lesson) makes a special appearance as Go Gunhee, the Chairman of the Korean Hunters’ Association
• Jung Ji-hoon (Bloodhounds Season 2) also joins for a special appearance as Baek Yoonho — an S-rank Hunter and head of the White Tiger Guild, second of the five major Hunter guilds in Korea.

Han Dong-wook joins the team as co-director of Solo Leveling alongside Lee Hae-jun and Kim Byung-seo.

About Solo Leveling

Solo Leveling was originally South Korean portal fantasy web novel written by Chugong, serialized in Kakao’s digital comic and fiction platform KakaoPage beginning on July 25, 2016, and was later published by D&C Media under their Papyrus label since November 4, 2016.

It would later become a webtoon  first serialized in KakaoPage on March 4, 2018, illustrated by the late Jang Sung-rak (Dubu), vided into two seasons, with the first season ending on March 19, 2020, followed by its second season, released from August 2020 to December 2021.

Eventually, Solo Leveling would be adapted into an anime television series by A-1 Pictures (Seven Deadly Sins, Kaguya-sama) that began airing on January 7, 2024 and ended on March 31, 2024.

Hiroyuki Sawano (Attack on Titan, Seven Deadly Sins) composes the series original soundtrack.

Source: Netflix

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