Death Note US Remake being written

What's the motivation for Americans to watch foreign films, though? Hollywood's already putting out more movies each year than most people have the time or the money to see, usually with higher budgets than their foreign counterparts and fewer (if any) language or cultural barriers. Sure, a high budget doesn't necessarily make a movie good, but it does help. And, while many people on this forum might not agree, the fact is that subtitles are inconvenient and can make it harder to connect with the characters and the story. Besides, right now it's considered very difficult to sell a movie without at least one big name star, and only a handful of non-American/British/Australian actors are considered "big" in the United States right now.
 
I should probably sit through the original before I take interest in a remake.

Then again, if Hollywood's record is any concern, this "american Death Note" will be noting even remotely like the source material other than character names (and even that's iffy).
 
The script was leaked to a french site in May


http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.death-note.fr%2F&sl=fr&tl=en&history_state0=
 
Things like that is why adaptations don't do too well, or the adaptations could've been better but weren't. Why change his name? That alone takes away from the core of the film. At the minimum, he should be Japanese mixed. Yagami would be his last name, and Light is the name he goes by. His real name would just translated to Light if anyone asks.



The overall plot though is Light vs L. Tugging at heart strings of viewers by killing the father, and L showing up at the end would be backlashed by fans. A director should know how to get the seats while being faithful. If not, then the movie should be called something else, inspired by Death Note.
 
Or they could get Wes Craven to direct the film. But he's busy with 25/8 so that's impossible but nothing seems to be on Cronenberg's watch so why not give Death Note to the man who created Scanners?
 
The Japanese legal system was practically irrelevant in Death Note. Especially with their 99% conviction rate making the story unrealistic in Japan. There just couldn't be that many criminals who could walk out of a Japanese courtroom with a not-guilty verdict.

The setting really isn't that Japanese at all, and as such easily translated to any other police department and highschool of any nation.
 
How is the legal system in DN in any way close to the legal system in real life Japan? Its nothing like the real Japanese legal system. Its more like the American legal system in that show, in Japan Light would have convicted right away, with only circumstantial evidence, its the American system that would have a hard time convicting him.The setting makes no sense.
 
Relax.
I doubt this "leaked script" is real.

First of all, WB only got to rights to adapt the manga for an American live-action film in April of 2009. What is the date on this draft script? April 7, 2009. Usually you acquire rights before paying someone to write a script. After all, what happens if some weird legal thing pops up preventing you from making the film? That sort of thing happens all the time, so I doubt they would have penned the script before the rights for an American version were secure.

Second, there are no watermarks on it. Real Hollywood scripts have watermarks, usually with that individual's name right on it. If Brad Pitt is given a script, it says Brad Pitt on every page; if Bob Johnson is given a script, it says Bob Johnson on every page; et cetera.

Third, it is really badly written. That isn't to say that a real script couldn't be badly written (I'm quite sure it could be), but this is poor writing in a different way. I'm talking about basic grammar, stylistic inconsistency, sentence redundancy, and story structure. It really feels like this was penned by someone writing at an early college level. Not a professional. Again, professionals make bad scripts all the time, but in a different way.

Could it be real?
I suppose.
But I doubt it.

So until we know for sure, let's calm ourselves people.

P.S. I'm not saying that the real thing won't be bad. I don't know. Nobody can possibly know that yet. But I am saying that this travesty is likely a hoax, and we shouldn't get worked up over it.

... and let's hope I'm right!
 
No. If the film borabs, hoping that it won't, then plans for a trilogy will be thrown out the window much like what happened to Eragon and The Golden Compass.
 
This is totally not extreme at all and a perfectly legitimate action.

Seriously, are we really getting bent out of shape over a movie that hasn't even fully been written yet? It would be one thing if the director/writers had a bad track record, but that's not even true. Even the Japanese version of the movie wasn't exactly like the comic book, but hell, the writers themselves said that they're adapting it directly from the manga. Sure there'll be some differences, but I seriously doubt we're getting another Dragonball Evolution.
 
What does Light's main reason become after using the Death Note for a while? He wants to become a god.

What kind of creatures made the Death Notes? Shinigami/Death GoRAB

Ryuk neeRAB to be in there, just for that.
 
What's the motivation for avoiding them altogether and/or pretending they don't exist?

So? Just because America generates tons and tons of movies every year doesn't mean that the ones they don't make aren't worth watching.

Only on rare occasions.

All the best special effects in the world can't hide a lousy script or poor acting, y'know.

Forget this forum; the people in the rest of the world who watch subtitled movies on a regular basis would disagree with you.

In my experience, nobody else in the world is as anti-subtitle as America is.
 
I'd like to add that this supposed script is dated 23 days before we got an announcement stating that the film would be adapted straight from the original manga, specifically the first three volumes, not the existing live-action films. I'm not seeing much reserablance to the first 3 manga volumes here, am I just not looking hard enough...? :P

...because I know that Light didn't call himself what he did after something he read in a book, and that his bodycount didn't amount to just 20 - it amounted to way, way more than that, no way it'd get much attention otherwise...

...not to mention, few would argue with the statement that Ryuk is integral to the storyline. Who's gonna write Light's name in the notebook otherwise, and how are we going to explain the eyes thing? Oh, you can just get it from the book? >.
 
Exactly how is movie without hollywood super stars supposed to compete with a film that has those.

Most people in America would rather watch Angie Jolie then some Japanese actor they never heard of. I mean who is more famous in the world then hollywood stars?

Plus a lot of foreign movies just don't meet market demanRAB, look at bollywood, they make more movies than almost anyone in the world, but most of them are musicals and the musical has been dead in America since the 50s.



What about Iron man, with that film didn't need good special effects, acting and script for it to work? You need all three to make some movies work.

Let me ask this, could Japan make a live action Gundam movie that wouldn't like stupid on screen?



Yes, but those countries aren't the current super power, when Rome and England were dominant they expored their culture, rather then imprting other cultures.




Yeah and america is different from the rest of the world, the culture is different, you may not like it, but that's reality. I don't like the iraq war, but I can't just wish it away, its a reeality.

There's Persepolis and Pan's Labyrinth as movies with subs in them, but those were both art house movies, plus stuff from Europe will likely get more respect then stuff from Asia, where most Americans would just think of producing monster movies and kung fu movies. Only European filsm would have a chance, because something like the death note movies doesn't have any art house cred.
 
Well I see it a little diff., Vlas and and Charley have been writing Death Note since 2008, before WB announced it,

Virtigo has some weird deal with WB


http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/06/03/screen-bites-61/

the date is 06/2008

in doing research i found excerpts from the script was leaked in may 09 on a french death note site


http://www.death-note.fr/home.php?page=news3


To be honest even if this script is fake i don't see the real script being a huge deviation from this

The leaked script is very conservative

a screenwriter once told me hollywood doesn't write movies for LA, NY, Chicago

they make movies for the biggest movie markets, which are conservative cities

St Louis, MO and Nashville, Tn

having ryuk and death note at once would be just to much for those people, this way they can focus more on the death note

maybe? for sequels ray pen. is still alive, so to avoid jail time luke kills ray when he finRAB a torn page, and ryuk comes because he likes lukes style and digs up the death not for him, so he can kill ray's girl ,

and L brings Luke on board because someone is claiming to be The 2nd Kira, Lukes motivation in the 2nd movie could be to avoid jail time and death

and the 3rd can be about building a perfect world,


you should know Roy Lee the Ceo of Virtigo Entertainment

he gained fame for turning japanese movies into u.s remakes, when asian companies wanted to just sell their movies in U.S as is, he told them they're too japanese to work, and they gave roy the rights to sell the remake to a U.S Studio
 
You know though, if the US studio doing the film snagged them to reprise their roles, that alone would speak volumes about having a certain reverence for the original content. As such, I hope their atleast bright to enough do that for that for the PR.
 
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