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Death Note Gets New Netflix Live-Action Series by Stranger Things Creators
posted on by Alex Mateo
Entertainment news website Deadline reported on Wednesday that Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer (Stranger Things), also known as the Duffer Brothers, are working on a new live-action series adaptation of Netflix at their newly formed studio Upside Down Pictures. Deadline states that this will be a "new take" from Netflix's previous live-action Death Note film (pictured right).
Netflix released a live-action Death Note film by director Shea Whigham as James Turner.
In Ohba and Obata's original 2003-2006 supernatural suspense manga, teenager Light Yagami finds a notebook with which he can put people to death by writing their names. He begins a self-anointed crusade against the criminals of the world, and a cat-and-mouse game begins with the authorities and one idiosyncratic genius detective.
The manga inspired a 37-episode television anime series in 2006-2007.
The live-action Death Note and dub.
A spinoff live-action film, L change the WorLd, debuted in Japan in 2008
The live-action debuted in November 2016. The story takes place 10 years after the events of the original story, and features new characters who compete over six Death Notes on Earth.
Source: Deadline (Mike Fleming Jr.)
