The reputation of live action adaptations of anime classics have been done no favors with the unveiling of the first trailer for Netflix’s live action Death Note film, generating a great deal of rage online for a multitude of reasons, from the non-Asian actors to the alteration of Light’s name – not an entirely surprising outcome considering the similar ongoing fiasco with Ghost in the Shell.
The trailer and all its “despicable” elements:
Those not convinced that the Death Note movie will be completely awful can witness it on August 25th.
They need to just stop making anime into movies
Hollywood movies are like fanfics
They think it is good to have such twists to the story and extras, but they are usually so wrong
People keep harping on about whitewashing. Who gives a f♥♥k about the fact that it’s set in America with a bunch of white people. The idiocy of this is the fact that it’s a 2 hour movie that is unlikely to replicated the cat and mouse game paced over 40 episodes. It’s not like it would’ve even cost a lot of money to make a tv series, it’s a low budget affair. There is literally 0 reason to condense this into a 2 hour movie.
Death Note, the concept, is fantastic and begs for other original interpretations. However, the original manga and anime series is all we need as an interpretation of the original story.
I kind of hoped Netflix would do Death Note: the series, and have it episodic or arc based, with a different person obtaining a death note each arc and deals with how they dealt with the power the death note brings.
This would be the perfect idea, with just some references to what happened on the tokyo original arc! But seeing Light being chased by the police like any regular/low IQ gangster is just an insult, a real shame!
Everyone forgot that their are 2 japan version of death note out right now before netfilx was even thought out coming out with it