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INTEREST: Netflix's Live-Action Death Note Film Director Deletes Twitter After Harassment

Guess What? He got to make an adaption of Death Note while y'all didn't.

He gets to direct King Kong vs Godzilla while yall sit on your butt and doing nothing.

If you're going to have social media presence on the internet, then you've got to have a thick skin.

"Mixed reviews". Mixed. Lol.
Also it wasn't the changes that bothered most people as this biased article tries to imply,

I have zero sympathy for the guy. Playing a professional victim can be profitable, and people know it.

Bait and mock people until one person says 'lol kill urself douche' and then you can grieve how you were viciously attacked and threatened by evil internet trolls and how you were almost murdered. Seen it so many times before.

I am not one to send death threats or hate mails and the likes, but if I were in his position, I would've put it number 1 in my priority to not piss billions of fans who already liked an established work.

Look I never saw the movie myself (want to but just haven't found the time to) but honestly all these people that get angry over live action adaptations really just make me mad. I watched Avatar: The Last Airbender religiously, Dragonball and Dragonball Z religiously, Speed Racer just a little bit, and Ghost In The Shell recently and I'll say this. I loved all of those live action adaptations. I still watch Avatar's live action adaptation and wish that it could get a part 2 but cause of people that get so critical over an adaptation making a few changes, it's not happening. If you're going to watch an adaptation, watch it with the expectation that it won't follow the story you're used to and you'll be just fine with whatever happens and maybe even generally pleased with how much of the original story was kept in. I've seen bad reviews of Death Note but I bet that if I watched it myself, I'd probably enjoy it.

Apollo-kun wrote:

This whole internet trend of giving credence to both "sides" when one side is clearly in the wrong needs to stop, honestly.

So everyone who criticized the Death Note movie on Twitter was "clearly in the wrong"?
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Jay Leon wrote:

Look I never saw the movie myself (want to but just haven't found the time to) but honestly all these people that get angry over live action adaptations really just make me mad. I watched Avatar: The Last Airbender religiously, Dragonball and Dragonball Z religiously, Speed Racer just a little bit, and Ghost In The Shell recently and I'll say this. I loved all of those live action adaptations. I still watch Avatar's live action adaptation and wish that it could get a part 2 but cause of people that get so critical over an adaptation making a few changes, it's not happening. If you're going to watch an adaptation, watch it with the expectation that it won't follow the story you're used to and you'll be just fine with whatever happens and maybe even generally pleased with how much of the original story was kept in. I've seen bad reviews of Death Note but I bet that if I watched it myself, I'd probably enjoy it.

No offense but just because you loved the adaptations doesn't mean that other peoples' criticisms of them aren't valid. I mean, good for you that you loved them, but why should the end-all-be-all judgement of those movies be based on your opinion of them alone?

Plus, I would argue there have been live action adaptations that seem to be pretty well received...just look at how well the Gintama live action movie is doing. The Rurouni Kenshin adaptations were pretty solid too, imho. For the failed attempts, maybe the problem isn't just with the audience being too militant but also with the filmmakers themselves who choose to completely scrap almost everything that people loved about the source material because they believe they have the artistic free reign to do so. I just think that if filmmakers are going to take someone else's material and change it so that it's almost unrecognizable to the original source, why not just come up with their own new idea instead because it's obvious they didn't like most of the things that made the original what it is anyway. They'd spare themselves a lot of grief that way.

While the death threats are 100% uncalled for, the harsh criticism is not uncalled for, he should report the users making said threats and suck it up on the rest of it (also, don't feed the trolls). This is a good lesson for Hollywood to learn, the fans do not want live action anime adaptations unless they respect the source, if they can't do it, than don't make it.

why not just come up with their own new idea instead because it's obvious they didn't like most of the things that made the original what it is anyway. They'd spare themselves a lot of grief that way.

I think you aren't getting my point here exactly. 1. Not saying that other people's negative opinions of the movie don't matter, never once said that. Just said that they make me mad. And even with that, it's still slightly taken out of context of what I really meant cause I just mean that people are too critical of live action adaptations.

2. The examples you used were made in Japan. Which adds to another point, how most anime fans think that any adaptation made in Japan is the best thing ever even though I have seen some of Japan's adaptations and they do the very thing that you said you hated about the live action adaptations made here in America, they cut important stuff out and just go whichever way they want to with it. It's the exact same way with both sides. Only difference is the language that is spoken and the white washing but let's be honest about the complaint on the latter here, most anime characters aren't even drawn to look asian. Death Note, though, I'll give the creators of the anime credit cause a few characters in there probably looked as similar to real life asians as you can get without going full on Aku No Hana style with it but others make the characters look more similar to white americans.