Death Note Netflix bound: The Manga adaptation from Adam Wingard will head to the streaming service.
Filmmaker Adam Wingard’s next film, Death Note, is heading to the small screen and will be completely financed by Netflix. The streaming service is actually in final negotiations to develop, finance and release the feature. More on the Death Note Netflix news below.
Death Note was set-up at Warner Brothers before it jumped into turnaround. With a budget of $40-50 million, the Nat Wolff and Margaret Qualley starring movie is based on the Japanese Manga series of the same name. Roy Lee, Dan Lin, Jason Hoffs and Masi Oka are producing the film, with shooting set to commence this July.
Here’s a little more about the source material.
An overachieving 12th grader, Yagami Light is an aspiring young man who seems destined for success. Unfortunately, his daily habits bore his incredible intelligence–So when a strange black notebook falls from the heavens during his class, it isn’t long before he takes it for himself. In his room, he finds, to his horror/fascination, that the Death Note is real, and owned by Ryuk, a Shinigami (Death God).
Any person’s name written in the Death Note will die in 40 seconds…. without fail.
With this supposed gift of God, Light swears upon his grave that he will ‘cleanse’ the world of the evil and needless people that inhabit it, thus creating a utopia for all. With the world’s greatest detective, L, hot on his tail, will Light’s ideals prove too fantastic to realize, or will he succeed bringing justice?
Jeremy Slater is writing the screenplay for the film. There’s no set release date as yet, but we’re assuming that it’ll get a debut in 2017 at some point. More news as we get it.
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