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Razor/Edge
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Oh crap, this might actually be happening.....might. I still have my doubts. Until this thing is actually filming, I won't believe it.
And it's obvious this guy is going to playing Light, but i'm sure they are going to Americanize his name. And a "reclusive police officer". Man, I really hope it's more complicated than that for L. L is technically a detective, not like normal a police officer. Really hope they at least keep L in tact. Light is probably doomed to be something than the anime version. Probably will dumb down the whole series as well to try to get a larger audience. |
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MajorZero
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Well, I don't think that Death Note is a pinnacle of quality writing to begin with, it sure as hell has a lot of fans though. There are better things to remake like Monster or Paranoia Agent but those don't have name recognition on par with Death Note. As for a team behind the project, I honestly don't know what to expect, Wingard is a fine director, but he needs a good screenplay to work with, is Slater up to challenge? I believe F4 was a failure primarily because of Josh Trank's lack of vision and Fox's blind belief in his talent even then when reports about his total lack of work ethic started spreading all over internet.
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enurtsol
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Fault In Our Stars............. that should bring the YA girl audience
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MadHi
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Kreion
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I don't think he does at all - Light is supposed to be beautiful, because that's part of his charm. He is a charming, intelligent young man who knows how to use his looks best and how to play people...Nat Wolf looks cute at best. Which isn't really what Light is supposed to look like...he's supposed to look untouchable - that is part of who he is as a character. Ugh, well I didn't have any hope for this anyway but now I care even less. |
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enurtsol
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Quick! Get one of the One Direction guys to play him before they break up some more! |
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Kadmos1
 Posts: 13558 Location: In Phoenix but has an 85308 ZIP |
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I think it would make more sense for a adaptation when it's more of a Western setting, like Bebop, Trigun, etc. Also, Gangsta could have decent live-action version if that happens. |
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rinmackie
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Kadmos1, I think Death Note can be easily put in a Western/American setting. I did not feel that the story was culturally Japanese, it seemed to me like something that could happen anywhere. My only concern is with L's quirkiness and Near's character, if he is in the remake. Yes, it can end up being a mess, but if handled correctly, I think it can at least as good as, if not better than the Japanese live-action movies.
On the other hand, I feel "Akira" is too culturally Japanese to adapt so I don't have too much faith in it. But Death Note, I'm cautiously optimistic. |
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DisneyLM
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People rejecting him reminds me of how Comic Book Fans dislike how 1 actor portrayed a certain superhero wrong and go ranting about it while the mass majority of people who watched the film (Casual Market) doesn't even care, and are watching the film anyway. Get a clue people, it's the Casual Market who will always go for Dubs, and as if you are introducing a Live-Action, they won't care if it was an Anime first. The casual market will go see it regardless, and they make up a large majority of brining in the money when it comes to putting this is Theaters. So they have to make it more Americanized if they want to pull in a new crowd of Casual Market people. If you get the Casual Market in, then that makes it more amazing, and make the higher ups to actaully start putting Anime Dubs in theathers, then once that takes off, the Subs Purists will have there Subs in theater, just not as big as Dubs first, because they want to Americanize this New Genere to the eyes of people who never imagine this stuff exists.
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Animeking1108
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Making quite a few generalizations, are we? |
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kid_nova
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If you look at the directors and the people behind the scenes, this movie has potential, they just have to make something of that potential, Death Note's story and concept are pretty solid, you'd have to do some M. Night Shamalan type shit to mess it up
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Ambimunch
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I was hoping that this movie would never happen. A trainwreck incoming. I don't like this guy, nor does he even look like Light. Oh God why are they doing this...
I can already see the ignorant masses saying Death Note sucks after seeing this film with no prior knowledge of the book or anime. Sad day indeed |
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MajorZero
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It kind of does. Should I remind what happened after certain character died? Even before that moment it was hardly a masterpiece, just really polished but also very predictable work. |
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Lostlorn Forest
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I've actually grown to like him in the role, if he really is playing Light. If you look at his face long enough, you can notice he's capable of pulling off a charm and using this to manipulate people while also looking like he can pull off very dark expressions... just my take.
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vision33r
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Hollywood doesn't understand anime, they think it's simple translation of the story plot and Americanize it for the audience.
Anime is art, it needs to retain it's purity. Once it loses it's purity there's zero appeal. |
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