Unfortunately, due to the cast being entirely American, most of the attention was negative. It drew in peoples’ attention from the very first trailer.
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The movie also gets some quirky energy from “Atlanta” oddball Lakeith Stanfield, playing a master-detective who wears a mask and goes by the code-name L to avoid getting written into Light’s death note.Based on the hit manga and anime series of the same name, Death Note is the latest Netflix movie to make waves. The “Death Note” death scenes are gloriously lurid, at times recalling the pulpy excesses of John Carpenter and Brian De Palma.
To cover his tracks, he manages to attribute the deaths to a “Lord Kira,” who quickly becomes a global hero. Wingard and his screenwriting team (which includes Jeremy Slater and Charles and Vlas Parlapanides) jump into the action early, as Light decides to use his gift/curse to kill criminals he finds in his dad’s computer database.
He can choose to stop being the keeper of the “death note” at any time, if he’s willing to accept responsibility for whatever the next person who owns it will do. Light is entrusted with a mystical book in which he can write down the names of the people he’d like to see dead and specific instructions about how they should go. Much of the first third of “Death Note” is dedicated to explaining the rules of the title object. Shea Whigham plays Light’s father, James, a Seattle policeman and Willem Dafoe provides the voice of Ryuk, the spiky deity who gives the antihero his lethal power, then hovers around to help him understand how it works. In addition to Wolff, “Death Note” has “The Leftovers” actress Margaret Qualley as Mia, a classmate of Light’s who becomes his accomplice.
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At its best, the picture resembles Wingard’s sharp-edged 2014 cult movie, “The Guest.” More often, it feels like a 100-minute “previously on” montage for a cable TV show.
What Wingard has delivered is a fitfully entertaining, clearly compromised hybrid of action, horror and science fiction. Meanwhile, throughout the production the “Death Note” team dealt with criticism from fans of the Ohba/Obata manga, resentful of Wingard and company’s attempt to westernize a Japanese creation.įrankly, the finished “Death Note” doesn’t merit all the hubbub and hand-wringing. The project also passed the through the hands of several production companies and studios before landing at Netflix, which is continuing to spend astonishing amounts of money (in this case reportedly $50 million) for original films.
Off-screen though, the making of “Death Note” has been far more complicated - and even controversial.ĭuring what’s been a decade-long development process, the American adaptation of Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata’s bestselling Japanese comic book has churned through multiple screenwriters and directors, with both Shane Black and Gus Van Sant attached for a time before “You’re Next” and “Blair Witch” helmer Adam Wingard took over. The gory thriller “Death Note” tells a fairly simple story about a teenager named Light Turner (played by Nat Wolff of “The Naked Brothers Band” and “The Fault in Our Stars”) who has the power to kill anybody in the world just by thinking of their face and writing down their name.
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