Death Note enters the Live Action Realm!

Another anime falls into the claws of Hollywood CEO´s as they plan to turn cool 2D characters into…well, humans! Death Note is ready to receive the Live Action treatment.

Warner Bros. has acquired rights to turn the Japanese manga series “Death Note” into a live-action film. Studio has hired screenwriters Charley and Vlas Parlapanides to adapt.

Story centers on a college student who accidentally finds a misplaced “death note,” infusing him with the power to kill merely by writing anyone’s name on the page while picturing the person in his mind. The 13-volume manga is a bestseller in Japan, and the film will be drawn from the first three installments, written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata for Shueisha Inc.

Warner Bros. Pictures Japan made three Japanese-language “Death Note” films. The new pic will be drawn from the manga, not the previous movies. Vertigo’s Roy Lee and Doug Davison will produce with Dan Lin’s Lin Pictures and Brian Witten. The scribes wrote “War of the Gods” for Relativity Media and “Live Bet” for Universal. ends

Source: Variety

Now, I think it is probably a good news for anime fans because there is already a Death Note Live Action movie made by Japanese and it was a hit, so there is a good chance this will be good enough because there is a good story and with a bigger “Hollywood” budget, it SHOULD be awesome. The second thing is that WARNER Bros and not FOX is doing this.  If you ask what Fox has to do with this, just ask DragonBall fans. The defense rests!

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