American Death Note Movie In Development Universal Pictures has revealed that Vertigo Entertainment is developing an American live action film adaptation of Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obatas supernatural suspense manga story Death Note. The Death Note franchise has already spawned three live action films in Japan. Brothers Vlas and Charles Parlapanides have been hired to construct a screenplay for an American Death Note feature.
The production notes for the recent horror films Shutter and The Strangers both reveal that America's Vertigo Entertainment is developing a remake of the Death Note franchise and has hired Vlas and Charles Parlapanides to write the screenplay. In Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's hit Death Note manga, a teenager finds a notebook with which he can put people to death by writing their names. He begins a self-anointed crusade against the criminals of the world, and a cat-and-mouse game begins with the authorities and one idiosyncratic genius detective.
Vertigo Entertainment (no relation to DC Comics' Vertigo imprint or the United Kingdom's Vertigo Films) has developed or is developing remakes of Ju-on (The Grudge), Dark Water, Infernal Affairs (The Departed), Gin gwai (The Eye), Shutter, My Sassy Girl, Jungdok (Possession), and Janghwa, Hongryeon (The Uninvited). The Parlapanides brothers are writers and executive producers of Undercover, an update of the 21 Jump Street television series which is under development for The CW network.
The Death Note manga has already been adapted into two Japanese live-action films with one spinoff film, an animated television series, assorted television specials, and novels. Viz Media is releasing the manga, the anime series, and a novel, while Viz Pictures released the first Japanese live-action film in theaters in May.
The person they wish to play Light Yagami is none other than Disney's own: Zac Effron.
rumoured director-- Bryan Bertino- is known for his film "The Strangers" Which only gained a 41% on Rotten Tomatoes, is said to be directing it. He is surely planning on making this a horror film, which any REAL Death Note fan knows that it is not.
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for god sake ppl calm down.. nothing is definite yet... , so I'm not a Zac efron fan, I agree with most of you that he would suck as light , but there are lots of crazy rumors going around I even found a site that said the main role of light would actually be played by Jesse Spencer ( don't get me wrong I love that guy).. that's Dr .Chase for all of you who watch the tv show House M.D.... that L would be played by Cillian Murphy( the scarecrow in batman begins..) and Evan Rachel Wood ( thirteen.. god I hated that movie ;and Across the universe...) would play the part of Misa , of course being a Hollywood version they would change the names turning Yagami light into-- light raynolds, Amana misa into-- misa parker.. and so on.....
While I have no idea if this is supossed to be some kind of a sick joke or just a rumor.. so I DON¨T TAKE RESPONSABILTY FOR THE INFO........ if it is just someone trying to play a joke the they have a lot of free time and need to get a hobbie, they also had a poster in the site that I'll share here on cr.. we will just have to wait and see if there will ever be a decent live version of this great manga and anime series....(Poster in the video, either real, or fake, its up to you to see and decide for yourselves!~)
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I think it's fine for zac efron to play as light.... besides, zac looks so much as light... zac's age is around light's age rite?? Jesse Spencer is like a little bit old dont u think.... the characters in death note are mostly young... so, young ppls play better in young ppl's roles... haha... get it??? but yea, changing their names is unacceptable!!!!
I hope there is a movie although probably not, It would of been advertised even at least a little bit with posters or something even though it isnt till next year, plus it does sound like its bieng greatly distorted and that is not a good thing but it would be interesting if they made a movie.
i don't think they should make an american movie of death note. it just wouldn't be the same, and nobody would be happy with it. just think of twilight; the movie totally ruined the book for me. i'm fine with the japanese movies, the people are way hotter anyway. :x
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