
A member of idol group Arashi member, Ninomiya Kazunari will be responsible voicing the said character. The voice of Korosensei for this film was revealed in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump 17th issue of 2015. It also revealed that, former member of the K-pop unit KARA, Kang Ji-young was casted as Irina Jelavić for this film.

Yamada is also best for his role as Hajime Kindaichi in TV drama live-action adaptation of the manga, Kindaichi Case Files, The Files of Young Kindaichi Neo. On August 27 it was revealed that Ryosuke Yamada, a 21 years old member of boys idol group Hey! Say! JUMP, will play Nagisa Shiota in the film. However, post-production of the film, which is related to CGI-created Korosensei still has a lot of work to do.

According to the film's Twitter account, most of shooting parts of class 3-E's student casts have already finished by October 10. The filming was scheduled to began in August 31.

The live action film was directed by Eiichirō Hasumi.
