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NEWS: Netflix's Live-Action Death Note Film's 1st Trailer Shows Nat Wolff as Light

More action & sex and less thinking. Typical american stuff.

Uggghhhhh... They're trying to make an already suspenseful work more suspenseful, but they're trying to do it through aesthetics and being "edgy", when then source material does it by actual plot. Hollywood and anime just don't mix well. Not to mention its completely different story-wise from the looks of it. This shows about being discreet and calculated in your actions but the trailer is the complete opposite, boisterous and generic.

What a crappy trailer, of all the things they could have shown, and half of it is just a bunch of random things that tell you nothing, makes no sense, and in no way makes you want to watch it.

Some of the color saturation choices are a bit much but the rest looks promising. They nailed the atmosphere too. I proceed with caution optimism but they can´t have Kira fall in love for real. That lustful kiss was my only eyebrow raise. Bonus point for being immediately recognizable to the source material too, as i expected more changes from the ground up.

What a cast btw. Fascinating to see who is now willing to do "tv". The budget is between 40 to 50 mil. too. Most of a season of House of Cards can be filmed with that amount.

I will not understand on this instance why people want Japanese actors and the film to be close to the anime.

Not necessarily downing this because of the "whitewashing" or the plot changes. It just looks bad and generic. I'm giving Ghost in a Shell a chance because the trailers look like they put forth effort. This just looks bad, especially the because of the bland aesthetics.

Ah, I see the comments are already full of people jumping to a bunch of rash conclusions based on so little footage due to the fact that they are also the same people who have been conditioning themselves to hate it as soon as they heard "U.S. Adaption of Death Note."

Of course, there's also the people using the "whitewashing" term again way too loosely, and I can't take that seriously at all. It's hard to claim something is trying to be racist, especially when the cast is more diverse than the original ever was. Not only is Watari still Japanese, but L is being played by a black man. (L's not even Japanese in the source material people, the dude's from Wales. A black guy cast would actually even make more sense if your complaints are for authenticity)

There isn't much to go on in this trailer at all. Can't safely say I feel confident enough to start judging. However, The tone seems right at home, and we all know Willem Dafoe as Ryuk is going to be perfect. I also still have confidence in some of these leads. Nat Wolffe isn't a bad actor, and I've been falling in love with Keith Stanfield ever since he started being in more movies. The guy's got a promising career ahead of him.

Adam Wingard is also someone I'd trust more than some. I mean, sure his Blair Witch sequel wasn't much to write home about (can't say I even care for the original all that much) but he was still responsible for great stuff like "You're Next" and "The Guest". Dude knows how to make a movie.

As a pretty avid fan of the property, I would rather hope this turns out to be good. Why wouldn't any self proclaimed fan want more bad adaptions of something they love? If it does somehow suck though, then whatever. It's not gonna change anything. We'll always still have the original show and books.