Netflix have, of course, got a big presence at the San Diego Comic Con, and on Thursday they held a special panel for their forthcoming movie Death Note. Watch the Death Note Comic Con panel in the player below.
Death Note Comic Con panel: Watch the highlights from San Diego
Based on the Japanese manga work by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, Death Note follows a high school student who comes across a supernatural notebook, realizing it holds within it a great power; if the owner inscribes someone’s name into it while picturing their face, he or she will die. Intoxicated with his new godlike abilities, the young man begins to kill those he deems unworthy of life.
Related: Watch the trailer for the Netflix movie Death Note
The Netflix original film is directed by Adam Wingard (Blair Witch, You’re Next) and stars Nat Wolff (Paper Towns), Margaret Qualley (The Leftovers), Lakeith Stanfield (Get Out), Paul Nakauchi (Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End), Shea Whigham (American Hustle) and Willem Dafoe (Spider-Man) as the voice of Ryuk.
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?
Nat Wolff, Margaret Qualley, Lakeith Stanfield and director Adam Wingard were on hand to discuss the movie and we have some highlights from that Death Note Comic Con panel below via a video reel and some select photos too. Terry Crews moderates.
Look out for Death Note on Netflix from August 25th, 2017.
