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May 7,`09 2:19pm | Quote | ↓
Source: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-05-01/warners-brothers-acquires-live-action-death-note-rights

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The American film studio Warner Brothers has acquired the rights to adapt Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's Death Note supernatural suspense manga series into a live-action film. In the manga, a teenager finds a notebook with which he can put people to death by writing their names. He begins a self-anointed crusade against the criminals of the world, and a cat-and-mouse game begins with the authorities and one idiosyncratic genius detective. In the proposed film version, the main character is described as a college student, and the story will cover the first three of the 13 manga volumes.


Oh, god... Hollywood caught another one.

Those rumours of Zac Efron as Light/Kira and Miley Cyrus as misa better not be true.


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May 7,`09 3:26pm | Quote | ↓
I remember seeing this in the news.

I've taken a new standpoint with movie adaptations of things I like. I expect no better than an awful movie. And when my expectations turn out true, I consider the movie no more relevant than a tribute or a fanfiction. If the movie turns out better than I was expecting, then hooray!

On a plus note, it's good to hear that they're not going to try to tackle any more than 3 issues in one movie. I think typically the biggest factor of a botched movie adaptation is time constraints.
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May 7,`09 3:46pm | Quote | ↓
Wait... where were we at the end of issue 3?

It's been so long since I read this thing.

Has anyone seen the Japanese live action movie?
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May 7,`09 3:55pm | Quote | ↓
"Product Placement" Said:

Has anyone seen the Japanese live action movie?


I have. I thought it was quite good, but I've never read or watched any other Death Note related stuff, so I can't tell you how faithful it was.
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May 7,`09 8:48pm | Quote | ↓
The 2 live-action Japanese movies are very good. I liked L's actor. L's a fun character to portray, anyways, ofc.

I liked the 2nd movie's ending much better than the manga/anime's sequence of events. It's so much more poetic.

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May 7,`09 10:59pm | Quote | ↓
I personally can't get myself to like the series (the whole psychological analysis during a tennis game thing was a turn off) but I guess this movie has potential since it is more realistic than manga like dragon ball or Cowboy Bebop (will be interesting to see where that one goes). Any clue when they're planning to release it?
 
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May 9,`09 7:25am | Quote | ↓
"mlai" Said:

The 2 live-action Japanese movies are very good. I liked L's actor. L's a fun character to portray, anyways, ofc.

I liked the 2nd movie's ending much better than the manga/anime's sequence of events. It's so much more poetic.

I haven't seen the 2nd movie. I did like the ending of the first one where L demonstrated that he was on to him with the potato chips thing.
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I've never read or watched any other Death Note related stuff, so I can't tell you how faithful it was.

The Japanese movie was rather faithful to the original story until they reached the ending. The whole girlfriend part was added and Naomi Misora originally fell for Light when he asked for her name in the park.

Edit: Since nobody said where issue three ends, I decided to look it up. Apparently the US version will go a bit further with the story then the Japanese movie.
WARNING: *CONTAINS SPOILER* - Mouse over black box to read.
Issue three ends where the second Kira is introduced.

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May 9,`09 7:45pm | Quote | ↓
Provided they teak the awful ending that the manga and anime had, I'll gladly throw my seven bucks about to see this film. Death Note is a great concept and a great series. At least until L died and they replaced him with that one brat, and the plot went down down down hill.

Live action movie was pretty good though. Except that awful prequel about L.
 
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May 10,`09 9:36pm | Quote | ↓
Yes, the manga/anime became worthless as soon as L left the story.

That 3rd movie wasn't a prequel. It's a chronicle of what L did in his last month. It had an intriguing concept because he is effectively immortal during that last month. Unfortunately, the writers weren't good enough to play with that in the movie plot.

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May 13,`09 7:29am | Quote | ↓
As long as Johnny Depp isn't L.
 
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As long as Johnny Depp isn't L.

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May 13,`09 4:48pm | Quote | ↓
That's funny...

a while ago I was just pondering how much epic or how much fail an American live action version of Death note would be... lol

I guess I'll have my answer then.
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May 14,`09 10:21pm | Quote | ↓
One would think that Dragonball has proven that you just can't do live-action manga adaptations in the U.S. But then again, I suppose they bought the rights to Death Note before the Dragonball Evolution fiasco.
 
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May 14,`09 10:33pm | Quote | ↓
I'm curious whether or not they will place the story in Japan or if they'll try to move it the States. If they do move it, then a Japanese death god interacting with an American student as he's eating out at McDonald's will look really weird in my opinion.
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May 16,`09 3:01am | Quote | ↓
"timethief" Said:

One would think that Dragonball has proven that you just can't do live-action manga adaptations in the U.S. But then again, I suppose they bought the rights to Death Note before the Dragonball Evolution fiasco.


speed racer proved you can,l given you arent stingy with the budget and you hire directors who truly love the source material. then again, i got the impression from DBE that they rea;;y just wanted to make an avatar movie.

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May 16,`09 4:56am | Quote | ↓
The Japanese Death Note movies (at least the first one, which I've seen) were boring as hell, and they left out the few scenes that would have made it amazing.

Since most American movies manage to be somewhat interesting even if they are bad, I'll probably see DN's US adaptation. Although I wonder what they're going to do with 3 volumes... I know I was hooked from the beginning, but all the good stuff really begins after mid volume 4.

At least they can't possibly mess it up as badly as Dragon Ball.
 
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At least they can't possibly mess it up as badly as Dragon Ball.

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May 18,`09 7:52pm | Quote | ↓
"Product Placement" Said:

I'm curious whether or not they will place the story in Japan or if they'll try to move it the States. If they do move it, then a Japanese death god interacting with an American student as he's eating out at McDonald's will look really weird in my opinion.


I actually think it would be weirder if they had American actors doing the whole death note thing in Japan. If they don't make it take place in America (or England or where ever) I think it'll just suck... I think Light as some preppy private school student in America would work out well.
 
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I'm curious whether or not they will place the story in Japan or if they'll try to move it the States. If they do move it, then a Japanese death god interacting with an American student as he's eating out at McDonald's will look really weird in my opinion.


I dont think the issue is if the story takes place in Japan or US, as long the main concept is respected...
 
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May 18,`09 9:18pm | Quote | ↓
"timethief" Said:

One would think that Dragonball has proven that you just can't do live-action manga adaptations in the U.S. But then again, I suppose they bought the rights to Death Note before the Dragonball Evolution fiasco.


Now, that's hardly a fair asessment. That's like seeing Batman & Robin and saying that it proves that you can't make a good movie based on a comic book. DN and DB are two very different series', and I think DN could translate into US live-action without losing much of what made it popular in the first place.
 
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May 19,`09 10:58am | Quote | ↓
I agree, I think the movie could happen in America and not foul things up too much. It's true that death gods are a more Japanese concept, but I think people are generally pretty flexible when it comes to the supernatural and afterlife concepts, so long as it makes a good story.
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May 19,`09 11:26am | Quote | ↓
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I agree, I think the movie could happen in America and not foul things up too much. It's true that death gods are a more Japanese concept, but I think people are generally pretty flexible when it comes to the supernatural and afterlife concepts, so long as it makes a good story.


I agree with you on that one. I also feel like the "death gods" in Death Note are more the author's creation that the traditional concept, so the whole culture thing shouldn't get in the way too much.
 
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May 19,`09 1:16pm | Quote | ↓
"Jonko" Said:

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I agree, I think the movie could happen in America and not foul things up too much. It's true that death gods are a more Japanese concept, but I think people are generally pretty flexible when it comes to the supernatural and afterlife concepts, so long as it makes a good story.


I agree with you on that one. I also feel like the "death gods" in Death Note are more the author's creation that the traditional concept, so the whole culture thing shouldn't get in the way too much.

All right but if the American death god wears a black cloak, has skeletal arms and wields a scythe at all times, I'm walking out.
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May 19,`09 5:07pm | Quote | ↓
Is there a live-action-anime fad going on or something?
 
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May 19,`09 11:41pm | Quote | ↓
"Product Placement" Said:

"Jonko" Said:

"Hawk" Said:

I agree, I think the movie could happen in America and not foul things up too much. It's true that death gods are a more Japanese concept, but I think people are generally pretty flexible when it comes to the supernatural and afterlife concepts, so long as it makes a good story.


I agree with you on that one. I also feel like the "death gods" in Death Note are more the author's creation that the traditional concept, so the whole culture thing shouldn't get in the way too much.

All right but if the American death god wears a black cloak, has skeletal arms and wields a scythe at all times, I'm walking out.


Yeah... In that case I'll walk out with you (if I even dare to see it in theaters).
 
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"Puff_Of_Smoke" Said:

Is there a live-action-anime fad going on or something?


Actually, I remember someone mentioning in another thread that a lot of shitty movies that are getting released lately were approved during the Writer's Strike that occured last year, so there were a lot of companies snatching up any franchise that had a built-in fanbase so they'd be guaranteed ticket sales, no matter what quality the script actually had.

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