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| Tweet Topic Started: Jul 11 2014, 02:51 AM (352 Views) | |
| Vanessa | Jul 11 2014, 02:51 AM Post #1 |
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Tracking Board – who has been both right and wrong about scoops on occasions – says that Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting, Psycho) will direct Death Note, Warner Bros.’ adaptation of the manga written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata!! “The film follows the story of a high school student who finds a mysterious notebook that lets him instantly kill any person by writing their name in the book. As the student’s body count piles up, a nameless FBI agent begins tracking him.” Van Sant replaces Shane Black, who was attached to direct as recently as 2013. The most recent draft of the script was written by Black, Anthony Bagarozzi, and Charles Mondry. Dan Lin, Doug Davison, Roy Lee, and Brian Witten are producing through Vertigo Entertainment, Witten Pictures, and Lin Pictures. |
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| Vanessa | Jul 11 2014, 02:51 AM Post #2 |
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I'm really pleasantly surprised to hear that this might still be happening. |
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| MonkeyParadise | Jul 11 2014, 02:55 AM Post #3 |
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I didn't know this was a thing. I loved Death note. |
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| Vanessa | Jul 11 2014, 02:59 AM Post #4 |
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Shane Black was supposed to be doing it originally, but I guess he got too busy with Marvel stuff. |
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| JethroClemson | Jul 11 2014, 03:19 AM Post #5 |
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I'm surprised I haven't heard about this. I enjoy Death Note and I'm interested to see how this plays out--mainly with Van Sant being in charge. |
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| Vanessa | Nov 13 2015, 03:21 AM Post #6 |
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This definitely needs an update. Adam Wingard is directing. Rainey Qualley and Nat Wolff will star. The script they're using now is by Jeremy Slater. |
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| Oceans Of Ashes | Nov 14 2015, 02:44 PM Post #7 |
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Interested to see what Wingard brings to the material |
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| Vanessa | Sep 16 2016, 11:04 PM Post #8 |
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It's going to be on Netflix. Rainey Qualley and Jeremy Slater are out. Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, and Keith Stanfield are in. |
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| Lasser | Sep 17 2016, 02:28 AM Post #9 |
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Wait Margaret Qualley has a sister and she originally was attached to this? So strange to me. |
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| Repo | Sep 17 2016, 02:53 AM Post #10 |
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Apparently, it's racism. I am extremely interested in the source material, but yeah. Didn't realize Wingard was directing. That's disappointing |
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| Cherry Darling | Sep 17 2016, 03:21 AM Post #11 |
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This sounds good. |
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| Vanessa | Sep 21 2016, 02:38 AM Post #12 |
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I think Adam Wingard may have not ever read the manga or even watched the anime. Everything he says about it is off. |
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| Repo | Sep 21 2016, 02:45 AM Post #13 |
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I think he's outright said he's basically going to do whatever he wants with it, so (the cast alone is sorta proof of that) |
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| Lasser | Aug 26 2017, 02:48 AM Post #14 |
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I actually liked it. I have no loyalty or anything to the original material and found this to be an admittedly goofy but fun film. The death scenes was so absurd but fun. Very final destination |
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| Vanessa | Aug 27 2017, 07:50 PM Post #15 |
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I'm planning on watching it later today. I think I'll be glad to have read something about how it was pitched to be two or three movies. I've seen headlines saying that it ends before a lot of the good stuff happens, and I think it'll be something that is good to know for adjusting expectations. |
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| Vanessa | Aug 28 2017, 04:40 AM Post #16 |
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I haven't finished it yet, but Lakeith Stanfield is great as L. His performance is really important in setting the tone. I didn't realize how much the movie would depend on him until I started it. |
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| Vanessa | Aug 30 2017, 03:00 AM Post #17 |
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I enjoyed this. It does feel a lot like a Final Destination film. The tone was really inconsistent, but it made the movie more fun. Because Light is rather boring and the plot a bit nonsensical, it's the tone and black comedy that make this enjoyable. As an adaptation, it's impossible to judge it. It takes the basic idea and turns it into something entirely different. There isn't much of anything at all that remained the same. The original plot is definitely more interesting. This has none of the tension of the original. Largely, it's because Light isn't much of a character. The movie gives barely any motivation for his actions, which makes the plot very thin. There is also not nearly enough Ryuk. There are a few changes the I liked. There's more L, which is a very good thing. All of the characters are different than the original versions, but I like how they changed him quite a bit. I also obviously appreciate that it is considerably more gory. About the whitewashing, it's hard to argue that the movie needs Nat Wolfe in the role of Light. His character has been changed so he's an average American male horror lead, and he could have been played by just about any actor the right age. There's no reason to not cast someone Japanese. |
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| Cherry Darling | Aug 31 2017, 10:11 PM Post #18 |
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I'm not familiar with the manga or anything, so I have nothing to compare it to, but I liked this alot. I liked Light, and it was fun seeing all the familiar Seattle filming locations like the ferris wheel It kind of felt like two different movies at times, but I didn't mind. Like Vanessa mentioned, the deaths do remind me alot of FD, so that was a plus as well.
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| Doug | Sep 16 2017, 08:46 PM Post #19 |
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Random Redneck
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I watched this movie on Netflix. It was different. |
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| Baby Firefly | Nov 24 2017, 09:21 AM Post #20 |
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The Devil Himself
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I decided that I'm just going to watch this soon, without reading or watching anything else Death Note related. I don't trust the negative things I've heard about this since it really is one of those films that was destined to be hated regardless of quality. |
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