Adam Wingard Signs on to Direct Death Note Hollywood Adaptation

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Adam Wingard, director of You’re Next (2011) and The Guest (2014) has signed on to direct the Warner Brothers’ live-action Hollywood adaptation of Death Note.

Adam Wingard has become something of a horror darling after emerging from the indie mumblegore scene with very cineliterate and darkly funny and intelligent films that pay homage to and twist the horror genre around. He first came to prominence in the mainstream with home-invasion thriller You’re Next (2011) and went on to make the blackly comic The Guest (2014), a thriller starring Dan Stevens that riffed on slasher movie mechanics and had an ‘80s inspired soundtrack.

Other people attached to this adaptation have a long history in producing American remakes of Asian supernatural movies like Vertigo Entertainment’s Roy Lee (he was involved in so-so re-makes of Asian supernatural movies like Dark Water, The Lake House, Shutter), Viz Productions’ Jason Hoffs (the rather good Edge of Tomorrow), and actor Masi Oka (Heroes). Doug Davison (The Grudge) and Brian Witten (Dark City, Final Destination) are executive producers,

This project has long been in development with many directors and writers linked to it and if this adaptation of Death Note does go ahead with Adam Wingard directing, we may be waiting for quite a bit longer because, according to Bloody-Disgusting.com, Adam Wingard and regular scriptwriter Simon Barrett are currently working on the thriller film The Woods, the story of which involves “a group of college students on a camping trip who discover they are not alone.”

The original manga series was illustrated by Takeshi Obata and written by Tsugumi Ohba and published in Weekly Shonen Jump between 2003 and 2006 (published in the UK by Viz Media). It has become a massively popular franchise adapted into light-novels, three live-action films starring Tatsuya Fujiwara as Light Yagami and Kenichi Matsuyama as L. There has also been a TV anime series animated by Madhouse which was released in the United Kingdom by Manga Entertainment. This year sees a live-action drama and a stage musical, as well.  

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