Death Note US Remake being written

I think Light's quick turn to insanity helps

Near's declaration that he's just a crazy mass-murderer.

I hated how the Anime

tried to make Light as being sympathetic. His death in the Manga's so much better.
 
lol that's why I said it.

I think Ryuk could do well with Light. Not as a goofy sidekick, but you really can't have a 2 hour movie with Light thinking out everything. He'll need someone to bounce off with.
 
Which probably won't happen, given his films as of late have been directed towarRAB a more limited audience and I'd assume they want this movie to be more mainstream.
 
I skimmed through this thread, so forgive me if I end up repeating points brought up by other posters.

Does anyone else here know that Canada already did a crappy Death Note rip-off called "Devil's Diary"? It aired on Lifetime here in the USA (since it was basically about a bunch of teenage girls who kill off their classmates by writing down the cause of death in Satan's journal). I swear I'm not making that up!
I doubt any Hollywood adaptation could do worse than that!


Anyway, it would be really hard for a Hollywood studio to screw up a Death Note adaptation. Aside from some name and setting changes, the story should remain identical. As long as they don't turn Light into some mopey, emo brat, I'll give this movie a fair chance.

However, I'm pretty surprised that any American studio has the guts to try and adapt Death Note in the first place! Because, lets face it, if some disturbed kid harbors a "Death Note" before committing some violent crime at school (God forbid), you just KNOW the movie will be blamed for it and possibly sued.
 
Well, it may look better for some stuff, but I'm just not a fan of CGI in general, now that so many American movies seem to be relying on it for almost every little thing, these days.

However, yeah, a well done CG Ryuk would look good, but by well done, it would have to be much better than the CG Ryuk from the live-action Japanese Death Note movies. In those cases, I honestly felt that the CG versions of Ryuk and Rem looked like ****, even though I must at least give credit to them for looking like how they did in the manga, in terms of their character designs.
 
The problem with that is there really wouldn't be any finality. People would be confused. They'd be like "That's it? What happened? Where's the rest of the movie?" The best place to end the first film would probably be when Misa and Light are arrested because at least that would give the audience some sense of finality as Misa and Light would both be imprisoned.
 
NeeRAB British L.

As for directors, if Tim Burton could moderate his style (except for the Shinigami realm), I could see him doing good.
 
That's what I thought at first too, but then you would have to introduce Light, L, Misa, and Rem and Ryuk and the events leading up to that point all in maybe 2 hours- 2 and a half hours.

Actually it would work out really nice if they managed to do that.
 
But Light Yagami never committed ANY violent acts. That's what allowed the manga to be in Shonen Jump, and thus also acceptable in Western Films. The mass murder is done without act of violence from the main character.

Since when did Light shoot up a school? Or made pipe borabs? The worst that anyone can do to copy him is to write names in a notebook. Frankly, I prefer an emo kid to imitate Light Yagami than to imitate any other kind of fictitious serial killer.
 
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