Warner Bros Japan have released a thirty-second teaser for its upcoming movie -the erstwhile Death Note 2016 trailer, now officially renamed Death Note: Light Up the New World.

The segment depicts one of the new - and purportedly worse ever - Death Note owner Sakura Aoi (Rina Kawaei) in the midst of a mass killing spree.  She has no ideological background, just the will to kill.  She tells Ryuk, "I will show more interesting things than Kira did."   He finally answers, "After all, humans are so interesting!"

The three stars of the forthcoming Japanese movie sequel in the Death Note series have just been announced. Following on from Death Note, Death Note: the Last Name and L: Change the World, this latest film outing is tentatively called Death Note 2016.

It will feature three brand new characters to add to the canon dramatis personae:

Directed by Shinsuke Sato, the fourth in the Death Note trilogy (as was) is confirmed for theatrical release in Autumn 2016.  It is currently being filmed in Kobe - with one or two sneaky night shoots in the middle of Tokyo and occasional suburbs.  Moreover, there will be some international scenes, which will be filmed actually in the relevant foreign parts. 

Any tremors of excitement building over this out there?

The key points revealed about Japan's Death Note 2016 film are as follows:

Beyond that, it's simply all confirmation that the project has been green-lit; Shinsuke Sato is directing it; and the 2016 Death Note movie will indeed be released in 2016.

But is this real information or merely rumour grown wild?

I've been watching news, regarding the newly announced Death Note live-action film, spread out across the globe. This has been replete with much speculation about the plot.

Nevertheless, I thought that all we genuinely had to go on was what we learned from the trailer after TV's live-action Death Note adaptation.  All else had to be Chinese whispers with each journalist and blogger building upon the rest, mistaking conjecture for fact and finding more in that trailer than had actually been there.

I was wrong.

Following a trail back from sites like iSchoolGuide, through the massively influential GameZone and Tokyo Otaku Mode, I eventually tracked an apparently pure strand of extra information back to Japanese website AnimeAnime. The Otaku Mode article is pretty much an English language translation of the latter.

Therein, under the unprepossessing title Production Announced on Death Note 2016 Movie (September 16th, 2015), the narrative seemed to separate information from the trailer and that gleaned from official sources elsewhere. But no source. 

AnimeAnime linked back to the Warner Bros. website for Death Note 2016 (still very much a working title by the way).

I've scoured the site and cannot find much more besides the trailer that we've already seen, plus a rather nifty second index holding screen.

In short, it might all still be Chinese whispers, but they seemed quite adamant on the point over at AnimeAnime!