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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yaygaymee light ofc
god the op pic made me lol
X2!
It's just so unexpected! (≧▼≦)(≧▼≦)
^^ seen it befour but on topic
isnt there alredy live action movies?
isnt this just going to be a remake with it in english first and most of the japanies actores changed to american terible cast overs and over/miss use of a pycological thriller in to some basterdised american version?
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sigh and i liked it to...well maby il forgive them if they let yagmi win..
2 of them, quite fun to watch to.
People dieing from heart-attacks looks ridiculous though.
I'm curious as to how a hollywood production would turn out.
WB should realize that there are already two live action movies.
I will shit bricks if they pull a DBE and make everybody white.
But everyone is already paler than pale in DB/DBZ but for 2 or 3 people...*rolls eyes*
its death note, whether or not they live up to the original or smear it to shit is irrelevant. the original story was just slightly not-crap to begin with.
If they scre up this 1 again, i should never ever watch live movie of anime BY Holiwood in my life
"Yes Kira deserves to die! And I hope he burns in hell!"
Fuck. You.
no u
L is a faggot
I have had it with these motherfucking Death Notes in this motherfucking plane!
I'm LMAO at this string of posts.
Anonymous quit being a fat cunt.
hey anonymous, quit being fat cunt.
fat cunts
lol
Yes, he's the perfect L
I didn't get it until I read this comment.
Then I laughed.
Hard.
Thank you!
Haha!!!
All i can imagine is Michael Jackson acting as L
O__O...
Nightmare....
*snigger*
His Noose...Save...ME...
Its me!!!!
MICHEAL!!!
ARGH!!!!!!!
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So ya thats how it will happen...
And now I feel redeemed that others won't get it no matter how hard the clue...
lol'd so hard
Nooooooooooo!!!!
Hollywood disappoints me almost everytime... Hopefully this doesn't...
hope leads to dispair for when hope is wrong all that is left is dispair... give up hopeing just... know its going to be crap if its not you will save your self the dispair...
絶望した！
get out weaboo!
...
Make us all a favor and kill yourself for not being able to understand a Sayounara Zetsubou-Sensei reference, even accusing the poster of being a weaaboo for writing "Zetsubou Shita" in Japanese. You're the weaaboo here.
I have had it with these motherfucking weaaboos in these motherfucking comments!
"Warner Brothers has brought in big-name heavyweight screenwriters [random names goes here]" <--- shows instant failage ggs. Just keep the current Live Action (which is REALLY WIN IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT GO GET IT NAO!) version and don't bother with this nigger sh!t.
Execllent use of the n-word's original definition to describe the clusterfuuk that is Hollywood raeping anime.
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.
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?
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.
OH DAMN. I lol'd so hard at that pic. Very well done!
VERY OLD NEWS....
Try harder, it's not even 24 hours old...
it's already old for I am always omnipresent..remember that I am Anon!
This news was out like months ago dude. Only the Warner licence part is new.
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.
EPIC FAIL.........
Stupid Anon is Stupid.
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.
I lol'd. Samuel "L" Motherf***in' Jackson FTW!
i think Hollywood should stop making adaptions of a good foreign films.I had enough of Dragonball and My Sassy Girls who doesn't live up to its core.
Cue car chases and explosions.
Christian Bale for Yagami Light!
who's the Joker?
We already had a live-action movie of Deathnote. Why do we need another?
Cause it's Hollywood
Japanese live action was pretty lame though.
Not that I have even a single shred of hope for this to not fail too, but might as well give them a chance.
can holywood actualy make any good films anymore?
i relly want to know if they can as most of the stuff coming out latly is Crap..
Seriously ya.
Last film i watched AND liked that came out of hollywood was.....Terminator 3, and that was how many years ago?
Last few years have been very dissapointing when it comes to hollywood movies.
and you call Terminator 3 a gud movie?
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asta lavista bebeh!
Is "hasta la vista baby" learn spanish!, pequeña puta anonima xD
lulz, a pissed off latino dude, it's obvious that I'm making fun of that line..
makes me remember of that story about an americunt pronouncing 'burrito' wrong and was being corrected by a pissed off mexican,
"It's burrito! not bu-ri-tow!"
OH GOD ENOUGH OF THIS HOLLYWOOD BULLSHI-Hey... that's Samuel L Jackson... heh... L... heh
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.
Noto disu shito agein :\
*facepalm*
AI RORUDDO.
I smell weaboos
nahh.. you just smell yourself.
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?
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 Hollywood.
Fuck you.
Fuck me?
hollywood should just give up and stop making these into crappy movies
after dragon ball evolution i don't have too much expectations
How about… Kira wins this time?
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.
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?
lol for the post image
99.9% chance they case Zac Efron as Light....
and 0.1% Samuel Jackson...
Fuck Zac Efron!
yeah! and Samuel Jackson ftw!
this is so pointless.
Samuel L. Jackson just has to play L.
lol wut...
"this motherfuckin notebook can motherfuckin fill you!"
I fukken lol'd
My rival Kira should be the actor from high school musical.
http://zacefroniskira.com/
Of note, Warner Brothers actually produced the Japanese Live-Action flicks, so they've been with the series for some time now.
Samuel L Jackson should play L
Like a few others have pointed out, we've known about Hollywood getting the license about this months ago, but the extra info is new and shows its actually progressing.
As for people commenting on the Japanese live action movies, they were horrid and strayed from the manga material. To begin with, they lost all believablity that Light was capable of what he did by changing his character. Rather than being a genius student bored with life, they changed him to your average student, annoyed that what he was studying, law, had loop holes.
The actor playing him also looked like a chubby faggot.
The only good aspect of those films would be the actor who played L nailed the role and also looked exactly like the manga/anime counterpart.
Now as for this Hollywood version, I'm unsure. They could probably get away with changing the location but they'd have to get some really talented people on board, as it's hard to inject excitement and drama into writing names in a notebook.
Anyway, I'll remain open minded for now.
DBZ-live all over again.
Can't honestly expect much, but if the word of sticking to the manga holds up, then it might actually be watchable.
Am I the only one who doesn't give a fuck where this movie takes place? It doesn't make a bit of difference if it is set in America or Japan. The only thing that changes is the character's names and skin color. Hell, the Japanese Death Note movie changed American and British characters to be Japanese. Why can't the American movie do the same? Fucking hypocrites.
I can almost assure you that this will be set in some place like New York and the characters will be American.
This is NOT what we should be worried about. You know what we should be worried about? Them fucking EVERYTHING else up. Imagine if because of Ryuk they tone the series down to be more all-ages. A PG Death Note. Is that what you want? Or how about they drastically change the story and character's personalities into shallow cliches that are nothing like the original (COUGHsilenthillmovieCOUGH).
Yeah, what a concept. I'm actually worried about things like plot, characters, and themes getting fucked up. Not the color of the character's skin. Really. Go figure.
I'm more worried about people talking about it and than bying it, like with Dragon Ball. Don't pay attention to brain-dead guys from hollywood. Don't tell people about them. Just pretend they don't work on this. They don't make any profit, they won't be messing with other good anime.
Dude, this is hollywood we're talking about. they are obviously going to butcher the content to fit the general audience, unmindful of the fact that they are stepping on a lot of anime fan's toes with this production.
son of a bitch! they couldn't even get any adaptation right: harry potter movies pale in comparison to the books, LOTR movies lacked much of the luster compared to the novels, Narnia movie sucked balls, and that latest Dragonball movie isn't even close to a dragonball movie.
The only thing redeeming about hollywood is their special effect eye candy. Take that shit away from them and all that's left is their EPIC FAIL.
DITTO. Nothing else to add.
Reasonable life on the internet. Congratulations, Anon.
Isn't that one guy from High School Music casted as Raito? Zaf Effron.
A FAGGOT PLAYING IMAGAY-YAGAMI... MAKES SENSE!
Death Note at the ghetto. A gang of black guys called "Kira" and there leader "Light fingers"(nickname on how easy he pulls the tricker) find the Death Note a book that was created in a secret military lap with alien technology and use it to make the world as they seem feet and become Gods of there territory. Police is unable to stop them and the known hard core cop Motherfucking wild beast "L" that was released by the force last year for unnecessary violence comes back to Stop those motherfuckers. In the mid time the Alien Ryuk came to earth to search for the one who holds the book. The rest on your screen.
In the leading roles is Samuel L.Jackson as "L" and P.Diddy as Light.
Music and soundtrack by 50cent.
unbelievably, when is it coming out ?
i just cant wait for this ^^
Fund it
this is going to fucking fail
fuck
Samuel Jackson as L would be great! I wouldn't be able to stop laughing. Anyway, doesn't this seem kind of unnecessary? They already have a live action in japan. That was pretty good. I fear this movie would only screw things up. Unless they decide to bring back the japanese actors and just further extend the story. I don't see why we need another retelling of it though.
Theyt better not mess it up. Its going to be hard to beat the Japanese live action.
Zack Efron for Kira
95 percent they will just hijack death note name, replace with white hollywood actors and change location to america and cut out and mutilate it so it won't be offensive to western sensitivities. aka pussify it. and have it turn out like dbz movie. they will try to get some hollywood teen star like zac efron to star as light but will still fail. the end.
Don't forget, they will be at an High School environment.
And by that I mean something like High School Musical.
Light would be a typical High School boy who gets a DN then Misa would be his schoolmate...
Then they'll be wearing LEATHER JACKETS! Shinigamis would do martial arts and then the ending would change into L and Kira uniting against Melo and Near.
I'd rather watch Steven Seagal all day...
Out of sheer curiosity, do you have the source for that image? I lol'd.
All the talk of Zac Efron in the comments has made me realize that people should never take live action movies for granted - things could always be worse. I mean, it could have been "Death Note: The Musical."
(...though that at least has the potential for lulz.)
I really dig the Samuel "L" Jackson pic.
I was gonna say that. XD
I wonder who will get the part of Ryuk or will it be fully 3d animated like the jp movie
lol at L jackson ^_^
Sam can play any character. If they were doing a remake of To Kill a Mocking Bird, he would be Scout. If it was a live action Ranma 1/2, he would most definitely be Gendo.
They are killin death note like they killed dbz now... wow... what else are they going to kill next?
Battle Angel Alita
Akira
Evangelion
Full Metal Panic
Ninja Scroll
Mazinger Z
Astroboy
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You forgot Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the Shell...
K-ON!
Starring:
Miley Cyrus as Yuppy
Lucy Liu as Mandy
Hillary Duff as Ritchie
Paris Hilton as Maggie
With an exclusive appearance by:
Zac Efron as Highschool Basketball Player
Samual L Jackson!!!!!!!!
hollywood if you make it sucked i will curse it
what the fucking shit?
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)
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
*grabs a pen*
*pulls out death note*
*writes*
"The Hollywood Blockbuster"
Nope id expect Warner Bros to fuck the story up the ass so hard nothing will make sense lol.
This movie is going to be so bad.
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
Wonder if Zac Efron will be Kira.
(Only actor I know that looks like him)
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.
I LOL hard on the OP picture.
There are really milking the series.
PLEASE tell me Zac Efrom will play Light. IT WILL BE EPIC LULZ!
Death Note Musical. 8D
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
The OP picture tells me that Artefact himself wants to see Samuel L. Jackson play as L
wonders if Jim Carrey is suited to play as Kira opposing Samuel L. Jackson /hmm
This is like the dub only like a billion times worse.
Im gonna enjoy this, hehe...
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!"
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".
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.
ROFLCOPTER @ 1st pic
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
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
Fail.
Death Note will be now known as gay Twilight.