Hollywood Death Note Movie Due
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: May 2, 2009 02:07 JST
- Tags: Adaptations, Death Note, Hollywood, Live Action, Marketing, Warner Brothers
Hollywood studio Warner Brothers has obtained the rights to produce a live-action movie adaptation of supernatural suspense manga Death Note, it has been revealed.
The adaptation is due to be based on the manga, as opposed to any of the other titles in the franchise, and is apparently still in the very early stages of production.
Warner Brothers has brought in big-name heavyweight screenwriters Charley and Vlas Parlapanides to create the screenplay, so the script may be something special indeed; they may be known to Hollywood followers from such blockbusters as “War of the Gods” and “Live Bet”.
Via GetNews.
With the manga having already been adapted into an anime and a series of Japanese live action adaptations, it seems Warner Brothers is on well trodden ground.
Whether they opt to faithfully adapt the original or simply hijack its brand identity should be interesting to behold…
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Fuck yes, L damn well better be played by Samuel L. Jackson.
It's funny cus Sam L Jackson is in every godamn film on the planet
Samuel L. Jackson is Nick Fury in Ironman, so I wouldn't be surprised if he played L~
Wonder if Zac Efron will be Kira.
(Only actor I know that looks like him)
But, but... there are already live-action movies...
I'm hoping its good. along with the CB movie of course....hollywood's failures are blown out of proportion compared to their successful films
I LOL hard on the OP picture.
There are really milking the series.
Pretty sure Light is going to by played by Zac Efron.
hopefully the movie ends at Light killing L. that's where the manga and anime should have ended.
nah, watching the god complex ass hole shivers in fear and runs for his life is much better :P
is that samuel "L." jackson?
haaha
wonders if Jim Carrey is suited to play as Kira opposing Samuel L. Jackson /hmm
The OP picture tells me that Artefact himself wants to see Samuel L. Jackson play as L
This movie is going to be so bad.
PLEASE tell me Zac Efrom will play Light. IT WILL BE EPIC LULZ!
Death Note Musical. 8D
hollywood needs to GTFO this sh*t. they have proven time and time again that they DO NOT UNDERSTAND anime and only succeed in bastardizing much beloved franchises for a quick buck... and the thing is I WISH i had the resolve not to go see these pieces of sh*t but my morbid curiosity will always get the better of me and i will end up in some small way supporting and propagating these atrocities and succumb. gah.
*grabs a pen*
*pulls out death note*
*writes*
"The Hollywood Blockbuster"
another candidate of fail like dragon ball evolution.
bwahahahahahahah XD
at least dragon ball evolution was better than its source material (it's like comparing a piece of crap to a really really stinky piece of crap)
what the fucking shit?
hollywood if you make it sucked i will curse it
Nope id expect Warner Bros to fuck the story up the ass so hard nothing will make sense lol.
We have to send the image over to Warner Brothers. I know it's old and they might have seen it, but Samuel 'L' jackson would rake in the big bucks.
hey if you're going to mess up a movie, do it right :D
hope this doesnt becomes another dragon ball ... who am i kiding it will -w-
enough is enough iv'e had it with theses mother fucking death notes on this mother fucking plane.
shit bitch im always yelling im Samual "L" Mother fucken Jackson
fuck
ROFLCOPTER @ 1st pic
this is bad, they will crew it up! just look at Dragon Ball Evolution! this has to stop!
Nice Pic! It's Avatar Material! XD
*right-click* *save picture*
Well firstly i do not care who plays Light unlike others i am extremely hesitant as to who is going to play my favorite character of all time "L"... If they don't get L right i think i am going to be dissapointed and will not want to see the movie at all.. O_o will they find somebody who resembles L as the live-action japanese movies?... well i am looking forward to this mwuahha :P <3333
i would love to be IN th enew movie, if tis good.
IS IT TRUE THAT THE ONE WHO WILL PORTRAY KIRA IS ZAC EFRON? -_- EWW. SORRY FOR ZAC FANS BUT HE'S NOT LIKE KIRA AT ALL -_- HE BETTER STAY ON HSM ___ GRR AND MY L WILL BE PLAYED BY A WOMAN? WTF -_- GRR
First it was Dragonball Evolution, then Avatar: The Last a=Airbender, now they also want to ruin Death Note?!?! Damn Hollywood.
Stop raping anime, Hollywood!!
im willing to bet there will be zero asian casts (especially as the lead) in this movie..and the excuse will be "its an adaptation" i HATE hollywood..always whitewashing..
One thing that would help at teh very least with this, they cast Drummond as Ryuk again like he did in the dub.
Just as planned... ¬ ¬
oh my god
Fail.
Death Note will be now known as gay Twilight.
-.- there gonna make it look like crap like they did with dragonballz and other animes
L es negro y punto
This is like the dub only like a billion times worse.
Im gonna enjoy this, hehe...
wait, how would the English adaptation work? I mean for starters, they wouldn't call Light "Kira" since Kira came from the Engrish pronunciation of "killer".
Micheal Caine should totally play Watari! You gotta agree with me!
As well as they should put Zak Efron as Light. After watching 17 again, he did not sing once in that movie. So I think I trust him not to break out in song. >.<
I will laugh so hard if they put samuel Jackson as L! "I'm tired of these mother fucking Kiras in this mother fucking world!"
Samual L Jackson!!!!!!!!
How the hell could this be Death Note if it doesn't take place in Japan?
*Ahem* The 2nd did involve some western guys..
I'm referring to the manga, of course.
But still, the way Light got found out happened in Japan. And most of the storyline as well.
Hollywood should stop doing this and start making their own stories.
inb4 HNNNNNNNNGGGGGGG
Fuck Hollywood.
I was about to write that, but a text search brought me to you. Anyway FUCK HOLLYWOOD.
Fuck Hollywood.
Fuck you.
Fuck me?
Fuck Hollywood.
hollywood should just give up and stop making these into crappy movies
This looks like it will translated better than DragonBall movie
So was all this wire action, car chases and explosions stuff already happening in the manga?
Noto disu shito agein :\
*facepalm*
AI RORUDDO.
I smell weaboos
nahh.. you just smell yourself.
I really don't get the OP pic, why Samuel *ahem* Jackson as L..?
I personally would like to see Hollywood come up with their own original characters and just make it something like "what will happen if the Death Note falls into the hands of a white guy"..
Anyway, the best idea is to simply just bring the original Japanese casts into the movie and do a coloboration for the second part of Death Note (if only they can revive L and Light back..). Seriously, a Thailand/Japanese shota as Near is just too ridiculous...
Now let's hope Holly won't mess up with Ryukku's huggable design...
you know that Light´s Father is still alive and could finish what his son begun with ?
Cause Samuel Jackson is in every other movie that comes out nowdays.
Samuel L Jackson.
Lol, i believe you failed to get my sarcasm when i said Samuel "AHEM" Jackson,eh?
You mean Sam U. L. Jackson. That's right. He has three given names. Two given to him by his parents and one given to him by the state to indicate to everyone that he's a black person.
>Whether they opt to faithfully adapt the original or simply hijack its brand identity should be interesting to behold…
It'll be the latter, considering Hollywood.
after dragon ball evolution i don't have too much expectations
What a stupid move. The franchise has 3 FANTASTIC live action movies that have a great story and wonderfully brilliant JAPANESE actors, a great Anime series and an epic manga series as well. WHY.
That's my question: WHY. Why bastardize and make an unholy perversion of otherwise great series we know and love? It will definitely be an abomination to mankind.
Zac Efron must die. Seriously, I can never imagine, in a million years, him playing Light or Sagara.
Includding the third movie..? Tbh, i was a little disappointed that the story revolved more about a virus that kills instead of a book that kills.
Still nice to see L's softside and him running around in a speed of light.. X3
It's the Jews. Last time I checked, Warner Brothers took a very high place on the list of brands you have to boycott for massively supporting Israel's weapon programs...
WTF! I keep sending letter bomb sto hollywood, but they arnt killing any of the people that keep coming up with these fucking ideas D:
hollywood. moer like retardedwood amirite?
Ryuk as a high school student XD
Who gets picked on by random bullies and the girl he later falls in love with. Then he is trained in martial arts by some Asian dude and fights them all of using wire action and computer effects and rotating cameras. The Asian dude than gives him one of the seven Death Notes that were created by seven mystique saints to banish the evil Kira long time ago. Ryuk then loses his fingers while working at a factory and takes in the middle school student Light who gets picked on by random bullies. He teaches him martial arts, Light defends himself and Ryuk entrusts to him the Death Note so he can banish the evil Kira in Ryuk's place, once he awakens again. After trying some stuff with the Death Note, L appears (played by Samuel Jackson). Light thinks L was the evil Kira but L thinks Light was the evil Kira. They engage in a car chase and, after both cars have crashed, in a wire action fight. Ryuk appears and helps Light killing L, but L uses his last breath to say that Light was Kira, and Ryuk suddenly starts believing this as well. Using a one-handed kaymihaymihey he makes the whole scysrape they had been fighting one explode. Then Optimus shows up and says to Ryuk that he can only kill Kira/Light by collecting all of the other six Death Notes. Ryuk and Light both try to get all seven Death Notes but Ryuk stumbles and Light gets them before him. Instead of using the Death Notes to kill Ryuk, Light goes to the mountains and waits for Ryuk to appear so he can fight and finish him fair and square. Ryuk returns to his old master and trains with him, learning the ultimative fighting technique gaykeedaymay along the way. He then takes his new girlfriend and together they go to the mountains to face Light. Ryuk tries a gaykeedaymay but misses and is severely beaten up by cg effects and wire action. He then collects strength from all his friends and suddenly wants to save the world. He kills Light with a one-handed kaymihaymihey. Staff roll.
How about… Kira wins this time?
OH GOD ENOUGH OF THIS HOLLYWOOD BULLSHI-Hey... that's Samuel L Jackson... heh... L... heh
VERY OLD NEWS....
EPIC FAIL.........
Stupid Anon is Stupid.
Try harder, it's not even 24 hours old...
The news that the rights were purchased is old. I think should really start adding some dates in your articles, it's kind of an important thing to leave out. I often hear "didn't that happen like last year?" when citing your articles.
This news was out like months ago dude. Only the Warner licence part is new.
it's already old for I am always omnipresent..remember that I am Anon!
This motherfucking Kira better stop killing all of these motherfucking people!
You don't understand: Kira = GOD
Badmouth him and thou shall die, from an heart attack.
Some people can't really understand Snakes on a Plane.
Ignorance isn't always bliss.
Wrong. Kira = demigod, or have you forgotten that he was very much injured in the final episode from four gunshot wounds?
So what? Since when do gods have to be invulnerable to gunshots?
Id laugh my ass off if samuel L jackson played L
OH GOD... im not sure if that would be awsome or horrible...
Or awesomely horrible. Or horribly awesome. In any case, I now want Sam to be L. No one else will work in my mind.
OH DAMN. I lol'd so hard at that pic. Very well done!
But why....? Japanese have done a good work with their live action, so why hollywood have to screw things up?
What good japanese "death note-based" live action are you referring to? I've never seen one.
Oh sorry. I've never thought that those movies were hong kong and not japanese. But nonetheless they are pretty good.
since begin of time maybe ?
Akira Kurosawa would like to have a word with you...
a lot of japanese movies are terrible, with manga/anime adaptations painful to watch.
one reason i've read was:
"Unlike America, where live-action shows and movies have generous budgets, the live-action industry in Japan is a small market and suffered from budgeting and location restrictions. The varied use of animation allowed artists to create settings that did not look like anything at all.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_anime]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_anime"
makes sense, since America blows when it comes to animation series.
you can't capture the rich characters or storyline of a manga/anime adaptation within a couple of hours. i just saw both "Nana" last week and was not satisfied. "Nodame" anime was better than the earlier live-action drama.
Deathnote live-action was hard to conceive, hollywood definitely gonna blow at it.
japanese make good movie?? since when?? unless it's a gore-fest horror, anime or pr0n...i've never seen one that's above average...even that is saying much...
you're right Anonononono... it's sad but it's true. Most (like 90% of japanese movies) are boring as fuck.
Their doramas are quite good, but surprisingly their movies are very weak. Even good actors in doramas suck at movies. I dont get it TBH
You guys are fuckin' idiots, since when does Japanese movies suck?