Warner Bros. Death Note To Star Nat Wolff
Following his leading role in 20th Century Fox’s comedy-drama Paper Towns and his Teen Choice Award-winning performance in The Fault In Our Stars, twenty-year old Nat Wolff has reportedly signed on to his next starring role – in Warner Bros.’ upcoming adaptation of Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata’s hit manga series Death Note.
While the name of the character Wolff will be portraying hasn’t been named in Variety’s report, their description of a student who finds a notebook with the ability to kill whoever has their name written in it fits that of the series’ protagonist Light Yagami.
Adam Wingard (V/H/S, The Guest) is currently set to direct the movie, which begins production in Spring 2016 with a script by The Fantastic Four screenwriter Jeremy Slater. Good Will Hunting director Gus Van Sant and Iron Man 3‘s Shane Black were both previously attached to direct.
Death Note has previously been adapted into a number of live-action works in Japan, including a Warner Bros. film trilogy starring Tatsuya Fujiwara in the lead role opposite Kenichi Matsuyama as the eccentric detective L, as well as an NTV television drama. A fourth Japanese movie, tentatively titled Death Note 2016 is also in development.
The original manga series was released in the United Kingdom by Viz Media, while the anime was distributed by Manga Entertainment UK and can currently be viewed on Netflix.
