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What's Happening with the Death Note Movie?

16/6/2014

11 Comments

 
It's all been a bit quiet on the American movie remake of Death Note front, so I thought I thought I'd do some digging and see what I can uncover.

For Death Note fans, it feels like a lifetime has passed since we first heard that Shane Black was set to direct a movie for us. It comes as quite a shock to realize that announcement came only three years ago. Since then, it's all been about waiting for Shane to be free.

If you recall, back in 2011, Shane Black had three projects in the pipeline. He opted to direct Iron Man 3 first. That's long since been in on the silver screen, so the fandom held its breath to see what would come next.

Drat! It was Doc Savage. The movie is currently in production. As of September 2013, Shane was just piecing together his cast and talking to the media about in what direction he plans to take it.

We'd all be forgiven for thinking that the Death Note movie is imminent. If Doc Savage was cast in September, and it's now June 2014, then surely it's close to post-production and out of the way. But no. Since last autumn, Doc Savage seems to have gone off the boil somewhat.

The IMDb entry for Doc Savage appears to be stuck on 'script'. No closing credits, no cast listed, not even a date for release even tentatively on the horizon.  So if it's all gone away, does that mean its OUR big moment?
Shane Black Death Note
Noooo!  It doesn't! Because now Shane Black is apparently all gung-ho about a fourth movie, which just came from left-field! As of four days ago, Shane was sniffing around Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe, trying to get them to sign up for his film The Nice Guys!

This is a movie so hot off the press, that it hasn't even GOT an IMDb entry yet. *sigh* The one thing that we can be absolutely sure about, it's not Death Note!

However, our movie does still seem to be a Thing That Will One Day Happen. It still has an entry in the IMDb, which was last updated only two months ago on 23rd April 2014. And that was to update the status to 'script', i.e. exactly the same as Doc Savage!

It sounds like Shane Black has finally got one that he likes for the Death Note movie adaptation. This reality has been fraught with problems, since Warner Bros were originally adamant that Kira should be the Good Guy. Fortunately Shane fought our corner, thus proving to the fandom that our story is in safe hands.

Beyond this, all Death Note fans have to go on is what Shane told Bleeding Cool last year:

                     Right now I’ve got this thing at Warner
                     Bros. called Death Note that I like a lot. It’s a
                     Japanese Manga that’s very tense and really cool.

                                            ~ Shane Black, April 24th 2013
That, coupled with the IMDb update, leads me to believe that the Death Note film is still very much still on. Though at this rate we'll all be hobbling to see it on our zimmer frames, trying to convince our great-grandchildren that it's a great story that they really should come with us to watch.

If there are still cinemas by that point.


11 Comments
J
12/10/2014 00:55:13

So you really thing it could happen?

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Matti
15/10/2014 12:30:01

At this point, it feels a little more like hope over expectation, but the Gus van Sant development was a good one.

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wildcardstripes
12/2/2015 09:33:22

well, i am glad to hear that they will be making a movie out of this intense anime but my question still remains... When?

Well, it's 2015 now, and the movie idea thingamaggiger started in 2011. I have heard rumors that Waner Bros is trying to cut Ryuk out, and to make Light Yagami turn good.

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Edwin Black link
17/2/2015 16:49:19

I wish we would atleast get an idea for the date that they are going to start shooting(if it happens) so we would have an idea of how long the wait will be.

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Matti
3/4/2015 04:47:40

At this point, I think it's best to assume 'years'. But you never know.

Matti
3/4/2015 04:49:55

Let's assume 'years'.

Matti
3/4/2015 04:48:48

There's probably a whole soap opera going on behind the scenes. One day we'll find out.

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lil
9/4/2015 15:01:07

I hope they don't cute ryuk out and make light good. The whole plot is ryuk dropping the death note in the human world, and light yagami starting off as a normal guy but slowly being taken over by the death note, making him turn crazy and insane. Plus how is a guy who kills people in a notebook good? I really hope they don't change the plot.

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Matti
17/4/2015 04:05:24

Hear hear! To me the whole point is that moral grey areas - where we realize that good and bad isn't black and white, and we end up questioning our own morality. I hope they don't change the plot either.

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Natasha Bonifacio
16/4/2015 08:49:28

Dont make light yagami good and dont cut ryuk.........they should stick with the already insanely great manga plot for the hit we all know and love called death note

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Matti
17/4/2015 04:05:58

You speak for us all, Natasha.

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