Netflix have posted a new trailer for its highly despised Death Note live action series, garnering the usual amount of inflammatory hatred from those who don’t want a western iteration of the glorious Nipponese franchise but bound to rake in a significant amount of income anyway due to all the attention it has mustered through the controversy.
The new trailer, which has unsurprisingly been bombarded with numerous dislikes:
Whether or not the “abominable” Death Note series will be good or bad can be determined by hardened Death Note enthusiasts come its August 25th Netflix premier.
L is black.
Automatic FAIL!!!
wowie. oh, boy. L is a nigga. lmao. now i am tempted to watch….as a negro, i will give it 1-3 episodes.
I’ll tell you why this will be bad. Because it won’t follow the original story exactly. Because this story is written by someone much, much less talented than Tsugumi Ohba.
So, when you hate it, you actually help promote it. Nice.
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If you kill your enemies, they win. 😉
I can’t fathom all of the hatred. It’s a great story that seems tailor made for local adaptions into a variety of settings and cultures. They do realize that “The Magnificent Seven” in no way disrespects “Seven Samurai”, right? If they were seeking to just make the show exactly the same but without Asian characters it would be one thing. But keeping the core story and changing the setting and context to said setting seems fine. It’s how great stories spread.
To go back to Kurosawa he would be largely unknown in the west if movie fans did not learn of his work as the inspiration for their favorite things such as Magnificent Seven and Star Wars. They then in turn went exploring and found something wonderful. The same will happen here.