Writer Homura Kawamoto and illustrator Toru Naomura’s Kakegurui manga is about to get another adaptation. This time it’s a live-action series called BET, which is in the works for Netflix with Warrior Nun creator Simon Barry as showrunner and Boat Rocker Media producing. Barry is developing, writing and directing the series, production for which recently started in Toronto. BET stars Miku Martineau, Ayo Solanke, Eve Edwards, Clara Alexandrova, Hunter Cardinal, Anwen O’Driscoll, Aviva Mongillo and Ryan Sutherland.The story of BET follows a mysterious transfer student from Japan named Yumeko, who enters an elite boarding school with a penchant for gambling and a dark secret. On her quest for revenge, she soon finds herself a target of the school’s powerful Student Council.
The original Kakegurui manga has been running since March 2014, and has inspired spinoff manga and multiple TV anime seasons, as well as live-action TV series and film adaptations. Yen Press publishes the manga in English and describes the first volume:
Hyakkaou Private Academy. An institution for the privileged with a very peculiar curriculum. You see, when you’re the sons and daughters of the wealthiest of the wealthy, it’s not athletic prowess or book smarts that keep you ahead. It’s reading your opponent-the art of the deal. What better way to hone those skills than with a rigorous curriculum of gambling? At Hyakkaou Private Academy, the winners live like kings, and the losers are put through the wringer. But when Yumeko Jabami enrolls, she’s gonna teach these kids what a high roller really looks like!
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
