Death Note US Remake being written

i can see all the weird ass fan girls/boys now gothic,emo etc i will be ashamed to be in a movie theater with the likes of them ill wait for a dvd release XD
 
Why? I mean how many Japanese live action movies have a budget that compares with a Hollywood movie?

Besides it seems like European art house movies would be in line before Japanese films for more releases, they have more appeal to pretentious people.
 
You know it's sad that writers that make movies based on anime can't even get Death Note right. I actually thought this movie might go well but I'm wrong yet again. You can't go and call it Death note while changing the plot and character names, it's just a plot involving a Death note and nothing more.
 
from the same faction as Ray Peraber?, their supposed to back off after Light kills all their guys (as i remeraber it), it'd be weird, id say the UN idea's the best.
 
Well, even if this is the worst movie ever, it won't be as painful as watching the Japanese film dubbed into English with no subtitles for text.

If Adult Swim can't cash in on this, they seriously fail even worse at anime. I'm hoping this could inspire that TNT Death Note-Monster hour I want.
 
Death Note is tailor-made for a nuraber of food promotions, especially since junk food companies are increasingly avoiding family films because it gives the impression of them targeting kiRAB.
 
There are three key failings in this script:

1) No Ryuk. Ryuk is easily the single most entertaining aspect of Death Note. He operates in much the same way that the Greek chorus does in classic plays...he in the character that asks the same questions and makes the same observations the audience does. He's the foil for Light to have a reason to explain his plans. Additionally, he also provides much-needed humor to lighten up what is otherwise a pretty darned grim affair of mass-murder. Speaking of which...

2) The reduction of scale. The cool hook of the Death Note concept is that a single person is holding the entire planet hostage; this script ignores this entirely and has Light focus on an extraordinarily limited pool of victims. There's no international intrigue whatsoever, and the mind-games between Kira and L are greatly reduced in importance because there's so much less on the line.

3) Light's entire character is nothing like the original. He's been re-written to be seen as a sympathetic avenger, rather than the sociopathic egomaniac that he was in the original story. The audience is SUPPOSED to find him reprehensible. The script completely shifts the blame to the Death Note itself, ultimately absolving him of some of the guilt. Their goals are completely different: Luke wants revenge for his mother, and Light wants to be God of the world. The original motivation is infinitely more interesting and provides many more challenges.

The problem with this script is that it's not written with sequels in mind, which any Death Note flick will honestly have to do...there need to be at least two movies to tell this story.
 
Maybe if Zac Efron is in it that will stop them from coming.

You know there is a certain Butler in TDK that could play another certain Butler in Death Note-

Let's find another movie to take actors from.
 
How about the British Intelligence?
Let's say the American government backed down because Kira supporters become a large enough voting population that they have no choice. (It's a democracy, it's what happens.)
And the British Intelligence decided to enter America secretly to fight Kira, because America can't help them anymore.

It can work because L was British. This would only be in the sequels though, FBI would definitely be active investigators in the first movie.
 
Another possible candidate I could picture to direct a Death Note is Alexandre Aja, don't know why but this sort of thing just fits him somehow.
 
I want Justin Chatwin to play Light after i watched The Invisible i thought to myself he has the look that would work if he got his done right and stuff, plus i think he could pull the character off, dunno why just do.

Sadly though he might end up ruined by playing Goku in Dragonball heh.
 
Well yeah, it's written plainly on the cover page that this is only the first draft. The writers may very well try adding Ryuk to the next script, to see if anything improves.
 
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