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Vertigo Hires Scribes for 'Death Note' Remake
Monday, June 2, 2008


By: MrDisgusting
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Vlas and Charles Parlapanides are both set to write the American remake of Death Note for Vertigo Films (The Ring, Quarantine, The Grudge), according to the production notes for THE STRANGERS. The original's story follows the mysterious "L" and others as they try to catch cool and brainy high school student Raito Yagami (Fujiwara), who has come into possession of a notebook that allows him to summon a murderous demon simply by writing the name of his intended victim. Although Raito is aware that killing is wrong, he strongly believes that the violent crimes he perpetrates are justified because "evildoers must die in order to create a better society."



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Big Bad Wolf
3:47pm, June 2, 2008
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NOOOOOO!!!

CrystalLakeCounselor
4:29pm, June 2, 2008
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No no No No. Godamnit, I hate American movie execs. Leave foreign films alone!

Kaname Tousen
5:38pm, June 2, 2008
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DO IT DO IT DO IT WHAT YOU WAITING FOR DO IT DO IT DO IT the Japaneses live action sucked so hard!!

stewie666
6:51pm, June 2, 2008
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SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEET

madam melva
10:46pm, June 2, 2008
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FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, NOOOOOO!!!!

BellPepper
11:17pm, June 2, 2008
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Gay. Death Note should stay the way it is. :/

Alazaar
11:38pm, June 2, 2008
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What the hell? Why do American movie execs have to disgrace the name of good movies, animes, etc by putting out shitty remakes? It has to be the fact that American movie makers don't have an original bone in their body and couldn't pump out a good movie if their life depended on it. Well, Cloverfield was an amazing original movie. But of late that's the only one. Leave Death Note alone!!! Remember what happened when American movie execs remade Godzilla? It was a giant iguana that did gymnastics. I wonder what is going to be done to kill the awesome images of L, Light, Ryuk. This is a horrible idea.

Kaname Tousen
11:41pm, June 2, 2008
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japanese movie sucked I don't care what anyone says and I believe the americans can do it the live action movies better

Jennsy
12:11am, June 3, 2008
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I 99.3242% can't see this being done (well). Sad.

Kay
12:54am, June 3, 2008
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No, no one ever be good as guy played L in japan verson.. so don't

bangor09
1:03am, June 3, 2008
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Here we go again, another crappy remake in the works.....

gishikin
1:21am, June 3, 2008
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"that allows him to summon a murderous demon" ... have you any idea what your talking about? go here http://www.watch-movies.net/s/death_note.html and watch the fucking thing

ultrazilla2000
4:30am, June 3, 2008
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Part of me screams NOOOO! and another part says it might be interesting. The original is VERY Japanese...so a U.S. remake will be vastly different in tone and characterization, which I'm curious to see. Expect to see the death gods looking much more frightening (instead of googly eyed!) and the deaths a bit more horrific.

madam melva
6:14am, June 3, 2008
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Well, fine. If these guys want to once again Americanize a Japanese horror classic, so be it; just as long as they don't ask Will Farrell to play Light!! ;s

crossbones
4:34pm, June 3, 2008
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I'm a huge fan of Death Note, but if they make this flick PG13, then they better forget it. Plus, I think they should get unknowns for the roles of Light, L, and others. I saw youtube clips of Ryuk and he looks so awesome. They should use those same effect as well.

Kaname Tousen
4:49pm, June 3, 2008
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yeah bd has no idea what the series is about, the ORIGINAL MOVIE WAS PG13

Kaname Tousen
5:04pm, June 3, 2008
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I'm not sure wtf half of you are on. Death note in no way a horror classic it's a suspense/mystery movie that mixes in supernatural elements kind of like the 6th sense or seven it just had some scary elements in it but wasn't considered HORRO... THEY CAN DO RYUK ALOT BETTER IN AMERICA I'm a hard core death note fan especially a Shinigami fan and felt that that Ryku didn't even remotely scare me even. Anyway you want to know why the original movies sucked ass THEY USED AMERICAN MUSIC IN A JAPANESE FILM LIKE IT WAS NORMAL. the only bad thing about this is Shia might be asked to play Raito(it's raito not Light) or L I can seee Shia as Masuda

Kaname Tousen
5:07pm, June 3, 2008
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oh yeah the dumbest part part about the original live actions THEY CHANGED RAITO'S STORY TO REFLECT KIRA X'S: NOT THE ORIGINAL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT AS IN THE MANGA AND ANIME BUT A LAW STUDENT IN COLLEGE LIKE KIRA X'S


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