Live-Action Death Note TV Show In Development From Duffer Brothers
A new deal between Netflix and the Duffer Brothers includes putting a new adaptation of Death Note into development. Death Note, which is now a sprawling franchise that spans continents and various forms of media, began as a manga series by writer Tsugumi Ohba and artist Takeshi Obata. It follows a young man named Light Yagami who discovers a notebook that will cause the death of anybody whose name is written in its pages, safeguarded by the demonic Shinigami known as Ryuk. Thus begins a cat and mouse game with the authorities as Light gets drawn further and further into the intoxicating pull of his new power over life and death.
Death Note was adapted into an anime series several years after its original publication. Although that show only lasted 37 episodes, the legacy of Death Note looms large in popular culture and it was later adapted into a novel, video games, four live-action Japanese films, and two Japanese series. Although most English-language Death Note material has merely been translated, there was an American film adaptation of the property helmed by Godzilla vs. Kong director Adam Wingard that came to Netflix in 2017, starring Nat Wolff as Light and Willem Dafoe as Ryuk.
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Per Deadline, the Duffer Brothers, who created the immensely popular Netflix series Stranger Things, have struck a brand new deal with the streamer. They have formed a new partnership called Upside Down Pictures that is to be run by Hilary Leavitt (Orphan Black, Ozark, The Great, Shining Girls) and made a brand new deal with Netflix that includes producing a bunch of new titles. One of the projects on their slate is a brand new adaptation of Death Note.
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