Willem Dafoe joins cast of live-action Death Note – IGN Brazil

After being confirmed as Vulko, supporting the Aquaman comic, the movie Justice League, actor Willem Dafoe joined the cast of the film with real actors of Death Note, which will be distributed by Netflix.

According to Mashable, Dafoe will join the cast of the film to interpret the shinigami Ryuk in the American film adaptation, which has Natt Wolff as the protagonist Light Turnet, Margaret Qualley as Mia Sutton and Keith L. Stanfield as

The live action will be based on the manga Death Note, published

between 2003 and 2006 tells the story of a boy who discovers a notebook that can kill people just by writing their names on their pages.

the film adaptation of Death Note has Adam Wingard as director, Jeremy Slater (Fantastic Four) as writer and Roy Lee as producer. Lee also revealed recently that the film will have the parental rating for over 17 years and “it will be one of the first realistic adaptations of manga, although it has many elements of fantasy.”

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thaís Stagni is editor of IGN Brazil. Follow the on Twitter.