Netflix has released a new trailer and featurette for Death Note.
It’s definitely going to be different from the story told in the anime and manga.
In an interview with IGN Adam Wingard, the film’s director, said: “It’s one of those things where the harder I tried to stay 100 percent true to the source material, the more it just kind of fell apart… You’re in a different country, you’re in a different kind of environment, and you’re trying to also summarize a sprawling series into a two-hour-long film. For me, it became about what do these themes mean to modern day America, and how does that affect how we tell the story. Ultimately, the cat and mouse chase between Light and L, the themes of good, evil, and what’s in between the gray area. Those are the core things of Death Note, and that’s really what we went for.”
What are your impressions from the trailer and featurette?
