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[T.O.P]

Had no idea this was a thing tbh, but it could be fun, i'm in

 

[Ryuukan]

More people should check out the 2015 drama, I think it did an even better job of adapting the manga (and altering all the right bits to make it better).

That's surprising to hear. All the scenes I saw from this were awful.

 

[fertygo]

Why they still use "Kira" tho

so the protag is a weeb?

 

[Joni]

Light looks amazingly awful. Light is supposed to be an amazing genius, super serious student and at the same time hot. A Patrick Bateman-figure. Like put a 10 year younger Robert Pattinson in a suit and you have Light. Not a dude with light streaks in his hair.

 

[hollomat]

Not getting a good feeling after seeing who the writer is.

His other credits include the new Fantastic Four, the new Exorcist and The Lazarus Effect.

It's a shame these terrible writers keep getting work.

 

[kewlmyc]

With regards to Light (Is he still called Light in this?) from the scant few scenes we see I get the impression that they aren't going to make him as overtly 'good' and instead play up the loner aspect. That's just what it feels like given how he looks and all.

Shame, because I liked the "genius popular kid, who thinks he's doing good at first but quickly becomes corrupt" concept more than your typical "loner kinda emo" kid that we always get in Hollywood.

 

[Hydrus]

It's a movie? I though it was gonna be a series.

 

[Da-Kid]

the lead just doesn't match at all....

Really... ? I wouldn't say that until we get a better idea of his personality portrayal. Light is a condescending, narcissistic, juvenile, bastard who develops a God complex. If they portray that he ABSOLUTELY fits.

 

[Nudull]

I otherwise like the director, but I'm super iffy about this. Coming in the same year as Ghost in the Shell's whitewashing issues does it no favors.

 

[Ridley327]

Yeah, this looks like an Adam Wingard film.

 

[rrc1594]

Hopefully they don't do the second half. #Lightshouldofwon

 

[like.a.ser]

I'll take this film, AND WATCH IT.

I don't have particularly high expectations, though. :/

 

[KarmaCow]

With regards to Light (Is he still called Light in this?) from the scant few scenes we see I get the impression that they aren't going to make him as overtly 'good' and instead play up the loner aspect. That's just what it feels like given how he looks and all.

That would be really disappointing. There needs to be that contrast between Light and L.

 

[Servbot24]

It's crazy how much shitty music can completely fuck up a trailer

 

[GuitarAtomik]

And ya'll were so convinced Ryuk wasn't even going to be in this! Looks pretty good so far.

 

[sphagnum]

Really... ? I wouldn't say that until we get a better idea of his personality portrayal. Light is a condescending, narcissistic, juvenile, bastard who develops a God complex. If they portray that he ABSOLUTELY fits.

You know, maybe they should've based live action Light on Milo Yiannopoulos

 

[plasmawave]

Is this a movie or a show?

 

[Aiii]

That's surprising to hear. All the scenes I saw from this were awful.

It's pretty well reviewed, has a 95 on Asianwiki with 3k votes

gotta disagree with this. i think the movies were serviceable but this drama is bottom tier trash. Especially what they did with L is unforgivable.
I wish japanese tv adaptions of mangas would be more interpretative instead of sticking to the source material like ants on a lump of sugar doing the ridiculous cosplay nonsense it usually turns into.

I really like what they did with L, especially the changes to the storyline with regards

Spoiler

to his post-death stuff. The entire changes to the Melo/Near storylines and them being introduced earlier as well. I feel that stuff fixed a lot of the issues from the manga post-L.

 

[Leona Lewis]

Is this a movie or a show?

Film, unfortunately.

Unless they cut a ton, the story will be incomprehensible.

 

[sphagnum]

youre gonna regret asking that probably

a) he's a hottie fotottie:

b) he has some mad burglary skillz

c) he made a perfect copy of the death note in ONE NIGHT meaning he's basically instrumental in light's downfall

i love him. also his voice in the anime is hnngh

The perfect copy thing fits with the absurdity of the source material as it gets more and more over the top but it doesn't look like they're going for something like that.

 

[Dynasty]

gotta disagree with this. i think the movies were serviceable but this drama is bottom tier trash. Especially what they did with L is unforgivable.
I wish japanese tv adaptions of mangas would be more interpretative instead of sticking to the source material like ants on a lump of sugar doing the ridiculous cosplay nonsense it usually turns into.

I agree, the movies were servicable and honestly I even prefered the ending of the movie to the anime/manga.
The drama was staight trash, a lot of people need to realise when translating manga/anime into a live action tv show or movie you need to cut certain things out, straying from the source material is sometimes the better thing to do, use the source material as inspiration unfortunately this is a double edge sword because you can stray too much away from the source material.

 

[GoldandBlue]

Looks like a more boring version of Death Note.

 

[Veritigo_X]

You know, maybe they should've based live action Light on Milo Yiannopoulos

Light is a terrible human being and somehow Milo still comes out looking worse. Imagine what he'd do with a Death Note...

 

[plasmawave]

Film, unfortunately.

Unless they cut a ton, the story will be incomprehensible.

Oh, I thought they were originally talking about doing a TV show...

 

[Prodigal Son]

Looked awful. Fuck everything about the lead casting.

Boo netflix boo

 

[Anung]

Say what you will but Dafoe is inspired casting.

 

[LotusHD]

Film, unfortunately.

Unless they cut a ton, the story will be incomprehensible.

Yea like seriously, what the fuck were they thinking. Then again, anime adaptations always fluster me, because realistically they never top the source material anyways. I mean of course, it's so a bigger audience can get into the material, but meh...


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Shame too, because there was a silver lining in Keith Stanfield. I just realized he was in Atlanta and Get Out and is great at playing odd characters, so it seems like L was an great casting choice for him.

 

[Sou Da]

I'm not sure how people are getting "loner" from Light's brief scenes tbh.

 

[MUnited83]

More people should check out the 2015 drama, I think it did an even better job of adapting the manga (and altering all the right bits to make it better).

I wasn't quite the fan of what they did to Light in the drama. Instead of being a self-righteous successful genius jackass with delusions of grandeur, he's just a awkward teenager that gets bullied regularly, doesn't get great grades and wants to kill bullies.


The dude who played Light's dad had a excellent performance though , one of the few good things in the drama.

 

[AntraxSuicide]

My favorite complaint in the Twitter replies was "This looks nothing like Death Note, it just looks like it's being written for a bunch of whiny edgy high school kids."

So ya know, it's fucking Death Note.

 

[Eblo]

This looks bad.

 

[JeremyEtcetera]

Like with Ghost in the Shell I'm expecting a different story than a 1:1 adaptation. Those who are expecting the latter should prepare to be disappointed. What really matters is if they manage to tell a good story, not if it is 100% manga accurate.

 

[fertygo]

Film, unfortunately.

Unless they cut a ton, the story will be incomprehensible.

Nah the L vs Light arc is perfect for single movie not page-per-page adaptation.

Shit if its me I'll made the entire story just revolve around first few day of Kira.

 

[Fixed2BeBroken]

Really... ? I wouldn't say that until we get a better idea of his personality portrayal. Light is a condescending, narcissistic, juvenile, bastard who develops a God complex. If they portray that he ABSOLUTELY fits.

From what I just saw, I didn't see him at all. It's like a totally different person.

 

[Trojita]

Is Light supposed to be in High School?

 

[Kyne]

this probably would have been better as a series.

 

[Arkeband]

I'm glad they're making it its own thing, even if it's heavily borrowing from the original story in terms of names and Ryuk being the shinigami.

The shots of the "action" seem like they're missing the point - Death Note is a cerebral thriller, where the silent deductions of the protagonist and the antagonist are as butt-clenching as the action scenes. I don't know how they ended up at 'we need a Ferris wheel setpiece', maybe because Ryuk is kind of a clown-bat monster, but I'm still skeptical.

At this point I'm still leaning towards "this should have been a series". Can you imagine Noah Hawley (of Fargo and Legion) doing a Death Note series? Holy shit, son.

 

[Aiii]

Is Light supposed to be in High School?

He is at the start of the manga, so yeah.

 

[marrec]

Film, unfortunately.

Unless they cut a ton, the story will be incomprehensible.

The Anime is pretty bad at being comprehensible anyway, there's a metric fuckton of fat that can (and should have been) cut from it.

A well paced 2 hour film could tell the story as good, if not better imo.

(Note: I'm one of those people who retroactively disliked the first half because of how bad the second half is)

 

[jack_package_200]

I mean...it can't be worse than iBoy...

Bring it Netflix

 

[Lights and Waves]

This looks good!

 

[UnemployedVillain]

My favorite complaint in the Twitter replies was "This looks nothing like Death Note, it just looks like it's being written for a bunch of whiny edgy high school kids."

So ya know, it's fucking Death Note.

Why do people always consider Death Note edgy? It was NEVER presented that way. It was fans who took Light as being anything, but a psychopath, but the author very much didn't try and paint him as anything, but. It was never needlessly violent or dark either, and aside from some of the choices made by the anime, I wouldn't really consider it edgy.

 

[Veritigo_X]

Film, unfortunately.

Unless they cut a ton, the story will be incomprehensible.

I guess that means the tennis scene is out

 

[Samus4145]

I thought it was announced that the American version was cutting out Ryuk?

 

[LotusHD]

The Anime is pretty bad at being comprehensible anyway, there's a metric fuckton of fat that can (and should have been) cut from it.

A well paced 2 hour film could tell the story as good, if not better imo.

I highly, highly doubt that. A series on the other hand... maybe.

 

[killatopak]

I'd watch this just for dafoe.

 

[eternalcircle]

I thought it would be a series. Just a film? Have a feeling there will be multiple then. Will be hard to do everything in just one movie.

 

[fertygo]

they won't get Dafoe for tv show

 

[New002]

I'm glad they're making it its own thing, even if it's heavily borrowing from the original story in terms of names and Ryuk being the shinigami.

The shots of the "action" seem like they're missing the point - Death Note is a cerebral thriller, where the silent deductions of the protagonist and the antagonist are as butt-clenching as the action scenes. I don't know how they ended up at 'we need a Ferris wheel setpiece', maybe because Ryuk is kind of a clown-bat monster, but I'm still skeptical.

At this point I'm still leaning towards "this should have been a series". Can you imagine Noah Howley (of Fargo and Legion) doing a Death Note series? Holy shit, son.

Hey gotta jazz it up for the audience so people don't get BORED. Yeah, that stood out to me as well and I agree with you.

 

[BobbeMalle]

Ready to be disappointed.