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<\/p>\nAlready, one petition to boycott the film has reached 10,000 signatures, reasoning that the movie takes the original Japanese out of the franchise.<\/p>\n
Racial and ethnic\u00a0 <\/span>representation on the Silver Screen has been a topic in Hollywood making headlines with outspoken acting talents making speeches anywhere from the Oscars to the Teen Choice Awards.<\/p>\n A study at the University of Southern California, conducted between 2007 and 2015, found that there had been a 3.9 percent increase in the number of Asian characters in Hollywood\u2019s most popular movies.<\/p>\n The new film was officially announced to be in production back in April 2015. Famed horror director Adam Wingard would direct, with Roy Lee, Dan Lin, Jason Hoffs and Masi Oka producing. In 2016, Netflix was announced to be the new distributor, with Jeremy Slater was as writer.<\/p>\n Netflix was aiming for an \u201cR\u201d rating. The movie\u2019s setting would also be moved from Japan to Seattle, Washington.<\/p>\n The basis for the film is an idea created by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, which has become famous the world over in the form of 12 manga volumes, an anime, other live-action Japanese movies distributed by Warner Bros. (whom Netflix bought the rights from), video games, a novel and even a musical.<\/p>\n \u201cDeath Note\u201d is about brilliant, but arrogant, university student Light Yagami who, due to the meddling of a bored death spirit named Ryuk, discovers a strange book (the titular \u201cDeath Note\u201d) that has the astounding and frightening power to kill whomever\u2019s name is written on its pages as long as the writer knows the victim\u2019s name and has seen their face.<\/p>\n Light first attempts to use it in a crusade against criminals and murderers and to \u2018make the world a better place.\u2019\u00a0 <\/span>However, Yagami\u2019s intentions are soon swayed. He tells Ryuk (who now follows him and that no one else can see or hear) that he now plans to use the book to become \u201cGod\u201d of a new world filled only with people whom he deems fit to live.\u00a0 <\/span>Eventually, Yagami makes an international name for himself as the serial killer\/vigilante \u201cKira\u201d (Japanese for \u201ckiller\u201d), causing the world to split between those wanting to hunt him down and punish him and those who praise him for killing criminals.<\/p>\n Interpol then decides to enlist the aid of a man believed by many to be the greatest detective ever: the man known only as \u201cL\u201d.\u00a0 <\/span>The series follows the game of developments between the self-styled god and the mastermind sleuth. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cDeath Note\u201d is set to premiere August 25 on Netflix.<\/p>\n Jacob Kusnerik<\/strong> Next in the trend of Hollywood foreign adaptations, Netflix aims to recreate \u201cDeath Note\u201d starring Nat Wolff as protagonist Light Turner (Yagami) in the supernatural thriller manga and anime series remake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10290,"featured_media":14965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[1421,1883,1422,250,1896,239,2009,1895,1077],"class_list":["post-14989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tartan-news","tag-ae","tag-anime","tag-arts-and-entertainment","tag-books","tag-death-note","tag-film","tag-jacob-kusnerik","tag-manga","tag-television"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DeathNote1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5s3vR-3TL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14989"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15589,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14989\/revisions\/15589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DeathNote2-891x1024.jpg\"){kind=spacer}
Over the next couple of years, more casting announcements were revealed: Margaret Qualley (\u201cThe Leftovers\u201d) will play female lead Misa Amane (\u201cMisa Sutton\u201d); Keith Stanfield (\u201cSelma\u201d, \u201cThe Purge: Anarchy\u201d) as antagonist, Detective L; Paul Nakauchi (\u201cOverwatch\u201d video games) as L\u2019s assistant, Watari; Shea Wingham (\u201cBoardwalk Empire\u201d) as Light\u2019s father, Soichiro Yagami (\u201cJames Turner\u201d); and Willem Dafoe (Sam Rami\u2019s \u201cSpider-Man\u201d trilogy) as the voice of death spirit, Ryuk.\u00a0 <\/span>Oka also said that he would have an unspecified role in the movie.<\/p>\n
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