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NEWS: The Guest's Adam Wingard to Helm Warners' Live-Action Death Note

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This is Hollywood we're talking about here -- don't hold your breath.

Please don't screw it up...

I really hope that Zac Efron would be acting as Light Yagami.

Zac Efron is, unfortunately, far too old to be playing this role now, unless they get some really good makeup and special effects on it (like with Benjamin Button). Something of a shame, as Efron knew people compared him to Light Yagami and enjoyed the manga.

Silly shounen trait about super intelligent high school students must go. It won't work in the film anyway. Besides, Efron easily can pass as 25-26 years old man, he should be just fine as Light.

Mizerous wrote:

In a small city in California a teen is doing high school work when a black book called the Killing Note falls from the sky. A Grim Reaper Rock observes the teen named David Smith or as the world would soon know him Killer... Okay that's harsh >_>

Honestly, the Japanese setting isn't exactly the most important part of Death Note, it's the story of an ordinary young man's descent into madness when given powers no man should ever have. You could replace Light Yagami with an American kid named Lucius Godwin and tell almost exactly the same story.