Up for release in 2016, Death Note: Year One was a US live-action movie based on the manga. There was a $15m budget attached to the project.

Sometime over the past few days, its IMDb listing has disappeared. It had been there for well over a couple of years.  Here's how it looked until recently:

However, this wasn't the much discussed Warner Bros epic, due to be directed by Adam Wingard.  The studio here was Wonder Works Films. Its director was Joseph 'Yossi' Bechor, who - along with Julie Paupe - was also the movie's scriptwriter.

For more on what it purported to be, read the Death Note News article about it from this time last year:  15m Dollar Budget for new Wonder Works Films US Adaptation Death Note: Year One.

So what's happened?  Where has it gone?  What do we know?

I can't help but wonder if this was never officially sanctioned by the copyright holders, and now Warner Bros have leaned upon the studio.

After all, Warner Bros has two Death Note movies of its own to produce and market for release in 2016.  The company probably wouldn't welcome any potential confusion with similar sounding projects listed right alongside Death Note 2016 and its US live-action counterpart.

Which does make you wonder how Wonder Works Films and its CEO - the ubiquitous Yossi Bechor - thought they would get away with it in the first place.

Since we last looked, there is slightly more information on-line about Death Note: Year One's script-writing director Yossi Bechor. For a start, his sparsely populated biography on IMDb:

However, that's a much reduced listing these days than its been in the past. Usually Bechor's sceen credits go on for pages and include plenty of block-busters alongside less known Indie film titles.

Like his listing at Stage 32, which has Joseph Bechor working for several major studios simultaneously.

None of which are Wonder Works Films, nor those others mentioned on his LinkedIn profile - Twisted Films and HorrorFilx (GB).

His company website there links to RSA Films.

Am I missing something here?

Apparently Kill Bill is. According to Bechor's Stage 32 credits, he was the co-executive producer on that movie in 2005.  Which must come as news to Quentin Tarantino, as no Kill Bill credit list mentions Joseph Bechor at all, nor under his nickname Yossi Bechor, nor (just for completion) is he named anywhere near Kill Bill 2.

Plus the film came out in 2003, not 2005.

This time last year, our look at Death Note: Year One and Yossi Bechor conclude that it was some kind of ornate trollfest. I have to say, I've uncovered nothing this time around to make me alter that view one iota.

Safe to say that this is one live action Death Note movie which won't see the light of day, and therefore I'll leave it there.

A release date of 2016 has been green lit by Wonder Works Films for their Death Note US remake.  It will be called Death Note: Year One, and the script is being penned by Yossi Bechor and Julie Paupe.

At this point in time, that is more or less all that we know, except that it's received a budget of $15m.

The bizarre thing here is just how little information there is out there! 

I can't even find a website for Wonder Works Films, other than similarly named companies (a family movie subsidiary of Disney, and a conglomerate of Bollywood stars constituting the other two). Clicking on the IMDb link to discover more about this particular Wonder Works Films produces a huge quantity of other movies, but most are at the pre-production stage too.

Checking out the LinkedIn pages for both Yossi Bechor (aka Joseph Bechor) and Julie Paupe demonstrates a long list of experience in script-writing and other movie involvement.  Yet you check out Yossi's Twitter account, and it reads like a twelve year old troll.

Moreover, Yossi claims to have recently been named 'The Most Unlikely Movie Mogul by The Hollywood Reporter'. A hunt for that article reveals that he really wasn't. That accolade was bestowed upon producer Avi Lerner. Unless that's another pseudonym.

In fact, a search on the Hollywood Reporter site for either Yossi Bechor or Joseph Bechor brings up absolutely nothing at all.

At this moment in time, all instinct is ringing 'elaborate troll'. But if it isn't, then great!  Anyone else got any thoughts on this?