this is something that has promise to be a great crossover but it could also be a curse if it is successful by getting imitators following the trend by making more manga live action that should be left alone. It ought to be interesting to see what happens when hollywood takes notice

I make it known every chance I get how much I dislike anime/manga overall. But there are a few properties that I have liked, the exceptions to the rule I guess. Deathnote is one of them, I caught most but not all of the anime on cartoon network a while back and I really liked it. Meant to catch the movie that played on some theaters as 1 or 2 night event but didn't make it. So I can definitely get behind this adaptation

Now I totally dug and loved Kiss Kiss Bang Bang so I hope Black can pull it off but you really cxan't make any assumptions because it's just such a different animal he's tackling. His writing credits though may bode well in the end.

calibur, don't take offense at this but I find that to be such an elitist and pompous statement. Why should manga or anime or Marve or DC not be adapted to another format where it can be seen and reach millions that otherwise would not bother or even be aware of it? Does it take anything away from the comic or the anime itself? If you enjoyed it you can keep enjoying it. It strikes me like those LOTR fans, the ones that speak elvish, that didn't want the movie because everyone should read it or otherwise they're not true fans.

Never heard of the book, but damn that's a great story idea! Kind of Twilight Zone. Look forward to seeing this done well.

Looking forward to a U.S. version of Death Note.  I usually don't get behind U.S. remakes of perfectly good original properties, but for some reason I think this could benefit, especially with special effects.  I just hope the death gods look somewhat the same as their original incarnations in design.

Wise no offense taken but you missunderstand what I'm trying to say. Remember when Twilight first hit and then all the Vampire tv shows started coming out of the woodwork- a couple of them good most bad.

That is what I mean. They just want to cash in on the trend. I dont mind having comics and manga getting into other formats in fact I look forwartd to it buts lets not just see dollar signs that is what I am saying. I'd rather see a few good titles come out and let them be very sucdcessful instead of a whole lot of them flopping like led ballons

Hell I myself wouldn't mind seeing a live action Flcl or evangelion. if it is done the right way.

To put it another way. condider the video game market. - Most if not all of them have been pretty bad-with the exception of hitman which i thought was pretty decent- yet the games that most people want to see havent been made into movies yet. aka splinter cell Halo etc. Do you see what I mean now..

@monkeyfoot- There is a lot of text to the story but reading the deathnote manga series is definetly worth it- or if you have netflix check it out from there. It is one heck of a ride

OK I got you now Calibur. That's one of the unfortunate consequences of success though because you're right if it's successful there will be many copycats trying to catch in on the trend. It's the same thing that's happening with 3D, everyone wants a piece of the pie and don't care that by doing it cheaply it's only hurting the format in the long run.

this will suck. it was a great live action 2 part movie from japan.it doesn't need to be redone.

um gschan deathnote was done in 3 installments from japan if i remember right. there was a two part released in blu ray but a trilogy box set hasnt been released for some reason

@wise- no problem dude

actually the 3rd movie is a prequel. its about 1 of the other guy's,not light,cases before the deathnote story.