Live action Death Note Film

Death Note Director Teases Nudity, Swearing, And Violence

http://comicbook.com/2016/09/15/death-note-director-teases-nudity-swearing-and-violence/

Well it is on Netflix.

Was there nudity in Death Note...? >.>

Now he's sure to get that teen demographic locked in.

Only in the minds of fangirls.

In an interview with the guy who wrote the first draft of the Death Note script, he compared it to Heat.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/daily-briefs/2016-09-20/early-death-note-scriptwriter-netflix-film-is-like-michael-mann-heat-with-teens/.106659

Since it's just a movie, there's no way they can fit the entirety of the original's three distinct arcs in there. I wonder how they'll pull it off.

...just remove the Yotsuba arc. The Death Note Relight films cut the plot down to like an hour and 30. They missed some tidbits but the gist of the plot was there. Also got to remember that the plot of Death Note can be cut down significantly when we don't have 30 seconds to a minute of Light and L talking to themselves. The really dramatic scenes of intense handwriting will probably be gone. Subtract Misa's Genki Girl'ing too and the plot could easily be feature length.

Assuming they're adapting he manga arc by arc anyway. I didn't get the impression they were going to copy the manga's events word for word. Have they released a cast list, and if they have are Naomi Misora and Penber on it? See that would be amusing if they ended up being Japanese detectives brought in to handle the Kira case]]. But assuming they're not in the film there's another micro arc we can cut out. Light gets into the Taskforce just by being damn good at detectiv-ing.

What was Light's family like before?

Also,

L: I am L.

American!Soichiro: Holy crap!

L: What

American!Soichiro: It's just... I... um... well we thought you were a white detective with messy hair and bags under his eyes.

Black L: Well I'm a black detective with messy hair and bags under his eyes. Can we move on to the supernatural murders going on?

That's about the extent of any racial context I can see coming from L. A racelift would be more influential for a character like Light whose warped perspective on the global crime rate influences the plot. Or Soichiro, being a cop and maybe having a different opinion on the kind of people that need to be taken out by Kira, maybe having a moral conflict on whether what Kira is doing is right. L, meanwhile, is fixated on catching Kira, and he doesn't really deviate, and he's so removed from society him having any opinion or speech about race would be contrived.

edited 18th Oct '16 6:00:01 AM by Soble

I feel like if they remove any arc, it'd be the last one, because Light's (really) long con with the memories is a super important part of the plot.

I said it would add subtext. If any character explicitly addressed the issue, it would be text. But it's impossible to see an American suburban (read:white and well-off) kid talking about urban crime in cities (read: poor black neighbourhoods) without the audience sensing a mess of historical and sociological issues being raised. At the very least they would have to acknowledge it, and I would prefer if they gave it relevance. Think of how the film of Planet of the Apes had a nuclear-war message that is entirely absent in the novel.

For the record: it's not that Japan doesn't have deep class divisions. But the national culture emphasises social harmony and unity, which has suppressed addressing these issues, so audiences aren't as primed to see them. And marginalised ethnic minorities exist (Koreans, Ainu) but they are small and invisible compared to African-Americans.

Just wondering, what are the general thoughts on the movie? I know a lot of people are pissed off for obvious reasons (it's a westernized version rather than a direct adaptation), but to be honest I'm still interested in it. To be fair, Japan are hardly strangers to making their own versions of western works either. Not to mention there are plenty of live-action Death Note movies with Japanese actors, so this is something completely different.

If the basic premise is unchanged, it could be interesting to see a different interpretation of the story. I'm fine with most of the casting decisions because its under the premise that this is a reimagining of Death Note, and I'm more concerned about how they'll tell the story than about "white washing".

To be quite honest, I just can't believe this actually got off the ground. I remember hearing about Hollywood making a Death Note movie back in 2008, and for this to finally be real after nearly a decade of Development Hell is unbelievable. Will it be as good as the original? Highly unlikely. But it can be enjoyable on its own merits if its done right.

Though I still find the name "Light Turner" to be more hilarious than what they probably intended.

I'm still interested in watching it. Yes, the casting is very bizarre. (If you're going to cast racial minority characters as white and white characters as racial minority, what's the point in that?) But I'm still curious as to what this movie will bring to the table for the franchise. I mean, it's not as bad as it could be. Somewhere along the line of development, they considered cutting Ryuk out of the story entirely. How were they planning on explaining the Note?

But yes, I'm still interested, and if it bombs, it can be swept under the rug like the Death Note community does to all the other live action fare.

Need to get Netflix again.

…Why must there always be a kiss or a sex scene in trailers?

Because cynical trailer people don't care enough about the trailer edit, so they shove any smexy time because Sex Sells. Even though this strategy kinda stopped working a while ago.

Welp.

Ryuk already looks to be the best part of this. Just like the series and the older live-aciton films.

Everything else I saw in that trailer.

edited 22nd Mar '17 4:04:40 PM by Soble

I had no idea Willem Dafoe was going to be Ryuk.

I will be watching this film pretty much entirely for him.

People in the comments are ragging on it for basically existing, it seems.

You know, in the recent wave of westernization of Japanese properties, they forgot a Japanese work set in a Western country.

There's some irony & hypocrisy in that.

The video has more likes than dislikes, that means something right? I really want this movie to succeed if just for everyone to shut the fuck up. I am so Goddamn tired of the complaining I feel like punching people in the face with a steel gauntlet.

An interesting observation from elsewhere:

"The thing that strikes me about the live action teaser is that it looks like they're making Light out to be this weird, social misfit loner. Like some grungy Holden Caulfield dude who's going to be lead down the path of using the Death Note because he's all psychologically messed up and shit. Which is, like, kind of a departure I don't like. The original Light was an overachieving preppy douchebag destined for an executive board or political office. He was a low key sociopath with a sense of entitlement and self-importance that pushed him to start viewing himself as an übermensch when he gets the note.

Like, it would be way more interesting for this character to either be an American high school preppy kid, or larval stage techbro or something. Them going the "Loners are dangerous and scary woooo!" route would be disappointing."

A. Do you think this is a correct assessment or guess at the show?

B. How would you feel if this person is correct and that's how they re-characterize Light?

Well fine, I'm still gonna talk about this.

Light's presentation is key to Death Note's success. Don't care how many people hate him on here, the series never would have worked if he was unpopular. The fact people rooted for Kira is essential. If Live- Action Light is an unlikable jerk to the majority of viewers, the series has failed dismally.

Naturally I hope that doesn't happen, I'm just saying. Light has to be able to make his case and make the audience believe it. Or, at the very least, he has to be able to make people believe in him. That's how characters in fiction and people in real life work.

Also I'm gonna start getting on Twitter to trend #I Stand With Light

edited 14th Apr '17 7:15:52 PM by Nikkolas

If nothing else, the world got this out of the whole thing.

In the span of 30 seconds my faith in humanity has been restored.

Death Note Clip: Light Meets Ryuk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFzvJMmH9x0