History Film / DeathNote2017

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* SpikesOfVillainy: Ryuk's new design forgoes the feathered look of his shoulders and hair, transforming them into spikes reminiscent of porcupine quills

* AdaptationalNationality: The film shifts the story's setting from Japan to America (UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}, to be specific), and thus, every main human character except Watari is now American.

* AgeLift: The elderly, whitehaired Watari is played by the much younger Paul Nakauchi here.

* AdaptationalNameChange: A few of the characters have new names to accomodate their {{Race Lift}}s. Light Yagami is now Light Turner, his father Soichiro is now James, and Misa Amane is renamed Mia Sutton. Averted in the cases of Ryuk and Watari, who retain their Japanese names.

* RaceLift: Light, Soichiro, and Misa are now Caucasian, while L is played by Keith Stanfield, who's African-American. Watari is a special case: a white Englishman in the manga and anime, he'll be Japanese here, as he was in the Japanese live-action films and TV series.

* RemakeCameo: Chris Britton, who dubbed Soichiro in the anime and Japanese live-action films, will have a role.

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!!The film contains the following tropes:

* DarkIsNotEvil: While the amorality (or not) of his actions has yet to be revealed, L wears all black in this adaptation, contrasting his manga counterpart, who wears mostly white.

* SerkisFolk: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] for Ryuk - he is portrayed in-costume by Creator/WillemDafoe augmented by makeup a CGI effects. Notable, as the 2006 film had Ryuk (and the other Shinigami) as completely CG characters.

** Originally an EvilRedhead in the manga, Light now has short blonde hair.
** Misa now has black hair instead of blonde.

* BloodierAndGorier: Director Adam Wingard promises that the film will be much more violent than any previous iteration of the story; notably, it will be the first adaptation of ''Death Note'' to be rated R.

* HotterAndSexier: The movie will feature nudity, something that was absent from the source material.

''Death Note (2017)'' is an upcoming American film adaptation of the [[Manga/DeathNote manga of the same name]]. Directed by Adam Wingard (who had previously worked on the ''Film/{{VHS}}'' films), the film will be released exclusively on Creator/{{Netflix}} in 2017.

* AdaptationalDyeJob: Originally an EvilRedhead in the manga, Light now has short blonde hair.

* AdaptationalDyeJob: Originally an EvilRedhead in the manga, Light now has short brown hair.

* DarkIsNotEvil: L wears all black in this adaptation, contrasting his manga counterpart, who wears mostly white.

* Chris Britton as TBA

''Death Note (2017)'' is an upcoming American film adaptation of the [[Manga/DeathNote manga of the same name]]. Directed by Adam Wingard (who had previously worked on the ''Film/{{VHS}}'' films), the movie stars Nat Wolff as VillainProtagonist Light (renamed Light ''Turner'' here, instead of Yagami), Keith Stanfield as L, and Creator/WillemDafoe as Ryuk. The film will be released exclusively on Creator/{{Netflix}} in 2017.

* RemakeCameo: Chris Britton, who voiced Soichiro in the anime and live-action films, will have a role.

* AdaptationalNameChange: A few of the characters have new names to accomodate their [[RaceLift Race Lifts]]. Light Yagami is now Light Turner, his father Soichiro is now James, and Misa Amane is renamed Mia Sutton.

* AdaptationalNationality: The film shifts the story's setting from Japan to America (UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}, to be specific), and thus, every character is now American.

* RaceLift: Light, Soichiro, and Misa are now Caucasian, while L is played by Keith Stanfield, who's African-American. Averted with Watari, who remains Japanese.

''Death Note (2017)'' is an upcoming American film adaptation of the [[Manga/DeathNote manga of the same name]]. Directed by Adam Wingard (who had previously worked on the ''Film/{{VHS}}'' films), the movie stars Nat Wolff as VillainProtagonist Light (renamed Light ''Turner'' here, instead of Yagami), Keith Stanfield as L, and Creator/WillemDafoe as Ryuk. The film will be released exclusively on Netflix in 2017.

* AdaptationalNationality: The film shifts the story's setting from Japan to America (Seattle, to be specific), and thus, every character is now American.

* RaceLift: Light, Soichiro, and Misa are now Caucasian, while L is played by Keith Stanfield, who's African-American. Averted with Watari, who remains Japanese.