The entertaiment industry news source Deadline reported on Friday that Sony‘s Columbia Pictures has ordered a feature film script of Akihito Tsukushi‘s dark fantasy adventure manga Made in Abyss from writer and director Kevin McMullin. Roy Lee‘s Vertigo Entertainment and Mobius Productions’ Masi Oka (Heroes’ Hiro Nakamura actor, Outer Wilds game) are producing the project, after previously collaborating on the 2017 Death Note film (as well as its planned sequel) and the live-action The Promised Neverland series in development at Amazon.
McMullin wrote and directed the 2019 drama film Low Tide, and his next project is the horror film First Harvest.
In the story of Made in Abyss, an enormous pit and cave system called the “Abyss” is the only unexplored place in the world. Strange and wonderful creatures reside in its depths, and it is full of precious relics that current humans…
