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Simon Barrett Won't Be Writing the US Death Note Movie Script - But Adam's Definitely In

11/5/2015

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Death Note Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett
No light now for Simon's
presumed Death Note
As soon as the news broke that Adam Wingard would be directing the new Death Note movie, his usual scriptwriting partner was besieged by well wishers.

Prematurely, as it turned out.

It was an easy mistake to make. Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett tend to come as a double act. Barrett has penned the script for nearly half of Wingard's sixteen movies - 7 in total - including the one that they're working on right now (The Woods).

When they're not doing the director/writer thing, they're acting together, as in the movie 24 Exposures.  Or doing something randomly appreciated in the background. (Barrett received thanks in the credits of Wingard's Home Sick. It didn't say why.)

In short, it's a bona fide bromance. Where one goes the other generally follows. We might as well imagine Mello without Matt, as Wingard without Barrett. So pretty much everyone presumed that Adam's appointment - as director of the Death Note US live action movie - meant that Simon would be writing the script.

He's not.  He's outed himself as Death Note dumped on Twitter, after returning from a long day's filming on The Woods to find his social media straining under the weight of the fandom. An explosion of Death Note homies rushing to congratulate him on a plumb job snatched and landed.

Except he hasn't. Wingard's doing the big one without him. Poor love.

Image: Simon Barrett Death Note Tweet
~ Death Note Tweet by Simon Barrett on April 27th 2015
Maybe once Adam Wingard has his foot in the door, he'll try to ninja his old friend in.  You never know.  We'll just have to wait and see.

Contrary to the previous situation with Gus van Sant - last director in the frame - we do have some indication that Wingard is genuinely involved in our Death Note US live action film.  No frustrating silence there, he Tweeted a link to Hollywood Reporter article breaking the news; followed Manga US (and Todd Masters - Monster maker. Filmmaker. Creative Dude. - dunno if that is related); then finished up two days later with this lovely message:
Adam Wingard Death Note Tweet April 29th 2015
~ Death Note Tweet by Adam Wingard on April 29th 2015
Awww!  Bless him!  It must be pretty crazy being on the receiving end of all that!  Now as long as he makes the movie and doesn't break our hearts with watered down, moralistic crap - as Warner Bros was mooted to be pushing for under Shane Black's abortive tenure - then we'll continue to enthuse right along with him.

For now, I'm grinning right along in support and assuming that the director of V.H.S., The Guest and You're Next is going to  give us a Death Note that is suitably dark. 

(Or, at this stage, is it down to just 'give us a Death Note' in live action form?  Considers how bad that could possibly be given a Disney-esque filter or a non-ambiguous good guy/bad guy, black and white lens... No, I'd rather do without, if the only shades of grey allowed in Hollywood these days are the obligatory fifty of Christian's whip.)

Though with Simon Barrett's potential script already lost from the running, we can only assume that Adam Wingard will be working from the one already written and erstwhile gathering dust on the table. The original (give or take a dozen drafts and rewrites to date) penned by Anthony Bagarozzi and Chuck Mondry, based on an earlier version - vetoed by Warner Bros - by Charley and Vlas Parlapanides.

Excepting Charley, all three are still listed by IMDb as the US Death Note scriptwriters, but they've since been joined by Fantastic Four screenplay writer Jeremy Slater. He was also responsible for The Lazarus Effect.

In short, is this still the script turned down by Shane Black as being too ridiculous to contemplate?  Or has Slater reinserted the Shinigami and returned Light to being the God of this New (or in our case, quite old and familiar now) World?  I guess time will tell whether we'll be pleased, or sobbing over could have beens before a silver screen resolutely not listing Simon Barrett's credit.



2 Comments
Bill
13/5/2015 04:52:55

Finally! My popcorn was starting to go stale.

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Matti
13/5/2015 15:42:53

Given the delays thus far, I think we'll go through many more bowls of popcorn before the actual one is nommed before a genuine live action Death Note movie from the US.

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