Hollywood remake of Death Note
TotalFilm
Published Jan 14 2011
Get ready to watch Death Note - in English.
American film director Shane Black, who was responsible for writing Hollywood blockbusters like Lethal Weapon, is now eyeing at making an English feature out of the hugely popular Japanese manga series.
The film will be produced by Warner Bros, while Anthony Bagarozzi and Charles Mondry have been roped in to pen the script.
Black, 49, was fascinated by Death Note and named it as his favourite manga.
Death Note was created by writer Tsugumi Ohba and manga artist Takeshi Obata in 2003.
As Light makes it his mission to rid the world of evil, a detective known as L stands in his way and attempts to stop him.
Starting 2006, the manga series was turned into a string of Japanese live-action films that took the Asian audiences by storm.
"I was just struck by its unique and brilliant sensibility.
What we want to do is take it back to that manga, and make it closer to what is so complex and truthful about the spirituality of the story, versus taking the concept and trying to copy it as an American thriller," Black told Deadline.com.
Black’s first and last directing attempt, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, starring Robert Downey, Jr. and Val Kilmer, was a hit among critics.
