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NEWS: Warner Brothers Acquire Live-Action Death Note Rights

....geeze, didn't think you'd be so passionate to send me something I could care less about reading. That page was a little too much.

You could've compressed it down a little. =/

I didn't expect you to read it all. I thought the initial introduction to the "Hollywood Homely" trope was enough.

Basically, casting beautiful people in such demonic roles is a recipe for disaster. And they will be beautiful; that was my point. While some female fans enjoy the vague Yaoi subtext between Light and L, that was not what Death Note was about. But having Ryuk and Rem as pretty twenty-somethings would be detrimental to the movie.

britannicamoore wrote:

If previous adaptions are any clue, it won't be a good look.

If I remember correctly Transformers was a hit. (Even tho it had its own original storyline)

tygerchickchibi wrote:

I was wondering, instead of shinigami looking like the designs in the original manga, what if they were substituted with human looking shinigami?

No. Just drop that abysmal line of reasoning. Knowing Hollywood, they would try and cast Ryuk as a young handsome male, and Rem as an "older" (read: less than thirty) female. Why? Because generally, those who are ugly by Hollywood standards are perfectly normal (or beautiful) in reality.

I want Death Gods who look evil, not Charmed's take on the subject.

Why can't they do cg shinigami? I was surprised how good Ryuk looked in the Japanese version because most of the Japanese horror I've bought have pretty sad special effects. They look no worse than the portrayal of demons or monsters in video games kids play.

I was thinking it might play better as a middle-age women's chick flick:

Light: Julia Roberts
L: Whoopie Goldberg
Misa: Hugh Grant
Ryuk: Shirley McClaine
Rem: Bette Middler

AMERICAN


LIGHT


V.S


L

"Hollywood" casting
Light - Zac Efron
L - Robert Pattinson from Twilight
Misa - Miley Cyrus

Realistic casting
Light - Zac Efron, you gotta give the guy a chance; Chace Crawford from Gossip Girl; Angus T. Jones from "2 and A Half Men" (once he gets to Kira's age and loses the baby fat)
L - Alessandro Julianni, Heath Ledger (if he were still alive, RIP) or Kenichi Matsuyama reprises him in the US version (see subtitled L movie for answers to language barrier problem)
Misa - Newcomer, sometimes it works (Hayden Christiensen) and sometimes it doesn't (Hayden Christiensen), or Hayden Panitierre from Heroes
Matsuda - Masi Oka (Heroes)
Aizawa - Seth Rogen or Paul Rudd
Light's Father - Robert Downey Jr.
Watari - Michael Caine
Ryuk - animatronic / CGI with the voice of Brian Drummond

When i heard about warner bros doing this, i was freaked out, i just hope the storyline is't altered, it takes place in japan with japanese actors occupying most of the cast, and it has the shinigami's looking better and more realistic. I liked the light of the japanese adaptation though and "L" obviously WARNER BROS BETTER NOT MESS THIS UP!!