Netflix takes over the production of the film based on the manga Death Note – Popcorn Modern

The Netflix streaming service took over production of the American film based on the manga “Death Note”. The production was being developed by Warner Bros., which ended up giving the project a realignment of your calendar. – The priority now are the franchises of DC Comics, Lego and derived from “Harry Potter”

According to the website the Wrap, Warner released the producers to negotiate the project and several studios were interested. They gave no details of the agreement with Netflix, but adaptation should keep the format that was already in development, bringing to the screen the first three volumes of the work in comics, with Jeremy Slater script (the controversial “Fantastic Four”), direction Adam Wingard ( “You is Next”) and Nat Wolff ( “the Fault in Our stars”) in the lead role.

“Death Note” was created by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata and account history student Light Yagami, who finds a haunted notebook, capable of killing anyone who has your name written on it. Soon, the boy begins to use the notebook to kill criminals, calling the attention of the police. The manga was released in 12 volumes and has been adapted into two series (an anime and the other with actors), plus three live action films in Japan.

Warner Bros. I tried to develop the American adaptation for about six years.

No debut date for the Western version, but according to producer Roy Lee, still filming will begin in 2016.

Marcel Plasse

Marcel Plasse is a journalist, attended the historic generation Bizz music magazine, published the first graphic novels released in Brazil, created the magazine Set of cinema, was critical in Folha, Estado and Valor Econômico, wrote in Playboy, she signed columns in Superinteressante and DVD News produced indies albums and is the creator and editor of the site Popcorn Modern