Netflix has acquired the live-action movie distribution rights to "My Hero Academia" from the direct

Netflix recently announced that it has acquired the rights to distribute Legendary Pictures' live-action version of My Hero Academia, which will be directed by Shinsuke Sato, director of Kingdom (キングダム) and Alice in Borderland(今際の国のアリス). It will also be the director's English-language film debut.

My Hero Academia is a young adult manga published by Shonen JUMP magazine after One Piece. The manga is based on a world like this: From one day in this world, newly born people suddenly began to show special abilities known as "Quirks", and the super-powered people who should only appear in the imaginary stories became reality, making the whole human society into changes and turbulence. People with evil intentions began to commit evil acts, people with a sense of strength and justice also rose up, and "heroes" who showed justice were born one after another.

The main character Midoriya Izuku has no " Quirks " of the youth, but he is still looking forward to and desire to become a hero. People around him are not optimistic that he can become a hero without personality, so that he always spent in the ridicule and contempt of others. Until he meets his most admired hero, known as the "symbol of peace" All Might, his dream will thus gain the possibility of becoming a reality.

In addition to the director, Joby Harold, screenwriter of Transformers: Rise of the Mighty Warriors, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword and Army of the Dead, will write the script. More details of the cast and release date are yet to be determined.