The American film studio Warner Brothers has acquired the rights to adapt Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's Death Note supernatural suspense manga series into a live-action film. In the manga, a teenager finds a notebook with which he can put people to death by writing their names. He begins a self-anointed crusade against the criminals of the world, and a cat-and-mouse game begins with the authorities and one idiosyncratic genius detective. In the proposed film version, the main character is described as a college student.
Vertigo Entertainment (no relation to DC Comics' Vertigo imprint or the United Kingdom's Vertigo Films) revealed last year that it was developing a remake with screenwriters Vlas and Charles Parlapanides. The two brothers remain attached to the project. Vertigo's Roy Lee and Doug Davison, Lin Pictures' Dan Lin, and Brian Witten are also attached as producers. The manga has already been adapted into three live-action films and one television anime series in Japan.
Vertigo Entertainment has developed or is developing remakes of Ju-on (The Grudge), Dark Water, Infernal Affairs (The Departed), Gin gwai (The Eye), Shutter, My Sassy Girl, Jungdok (Possession), and Janghwa, Hongryeon (The Uninvited). The Parlapanides brothers are writers and executive producers of Undercover, an update of the 21 Jump Street television series which was under development for The CW network. Viz Media has released the manga, the anime series, and a spinoff novel, while the Viz Pictures affiliate released the three Japanese live-action films in theaters. The third film, L change the WorLd, just finished its two-night theatrical run in the United States on Thursday.
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Brace for the impact...
ps: Το μόνο
Edited by Dante80, 01 May 2009 - 16:50.
............ I have a really bad feeling about this. Oh well I was going to watch it anyway. Το θέμα είναι αν θα κλαίω στις δραματικές σκηνές ή θα με πιάσει νευρικό γέλιο όπως έγινε στις ιαπωνικές live action (ή ακόμη χειρότερα αν θα με πιασει η αυθόρμητη επιθυμία να μουτζώνω την οθόνη).
