Live-Action DEATH NOTE Film Moving Forward with Director of YOU'RE NEXT

A live-action adaptation of the hit anime series Death Note has been in development for years. In 2011 Iron Man 3 director Shane Black was attached to the film, and in 2014 Gus Van Sant was supposed to take a crack at it. Nothing ever happened with those, but this is a movie that is bound to happen one day. 

Maybe director Adam Wingard will be the lucky guy to bring it to life. He has just signed on to helm the project. If you’re not familiar with the name, Wingard is the director of cult indie genre films such as The Guest and You’re Next. I really dig Wingard’s directing and storytelling style, and I think this would be a great project for him! He seems like a better choice than Black or Van Sant. I hope that the film goes through with Wingard attached because I believe he will deliver a film that many fans will be happy with. 

The manga series was written by Tsugumi Ohba and artist Takeshi Obata and centers around a high school student named Light Yagami, who finds a book called the Death Note which has the power to kill anyone whose name is written within it. The most recent script for the film was written by Jeremy Slater (Fantastic Four). Here's a more detailed description of the story:

Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects - and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But when criminals begin dropping dead, the authorities send the legendary detective L to track down the killer. With L hot on his heels, will Light lose sight of his noble goal...or his life? Light tests the boundaries of the Death Note powers as L and the police begin to close in. Luckily Light's father is the head of the Japanese National Police Agency and leaves vital information about the case lying around the house. With access to his father's files, Light can keep one step ahead of the authorities. But who is the strange man following him, and how can Light guard against enemies whose names he doesn't know?

Wingard also directed segments of the horror anthology films V/H/S and The ABCs of Death. Before he starts work on Death Note he will direct The Woods, which is a horror movie set up at Lionsgate and is set to shoot this summer. What are your thoughts on Wingard taking on the challenge of brining Death Note to the big screen?

Source: THR

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