Just in case you’ve been living under a rock, Netflix will be releasing a live-action film adaptation of the popular Japanese manga and anime series Death Note on August 25. Its director Adam Wingard released a poster on Thursday revealing a poster visual of L played by Keith Stanfield. A visual of Ryuk (voiced by Willem Dafoe) was also released previously.
For those who are expecting much for this adaptation, this has a lot of major changes and differences from the original Death Note manga series created by Takeshi Obata and Tsugumi Ohba. The names of the characters have changed in this adaptation like Light Turner played by Nat Wolff (instead of Light Yagami), James Turner (Shea Whigham), and Mia Sutton (Margaret Qualley). The film will also star Paul Nakauchi playing the role of Watari.
Trailer for film can be seen below:
In the original Death Note manga, Light Yagami was just an ordinary boy living a normal ordinary life. Everything seemed to have turned different when he found the Death Note, a supernatural notebook that kills anyone by just writing their name. The time that he found the notebook was also the time he was acquainted with the shinigami named Ryuk.
Light uses the Death Note to put criminals and unlawful people to their death. This took the attention of L, a detective who does what he can to investigate on the mysterious deaths caused by this person being called as “Kira”.
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