Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Death Note Hits Hollywood

Variety reported that the popular series “Death Note” may be adapted into a Hollywood film by Warner Bros. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Death Note, it was a widely popular manga which was adapted into an anime and 2 Japanese live-action films, all of which turned out very successful.

The original story revolves around a student named Light Yagami who one day finds a notebook on the ground labelled “Death Note”. Inside, he finds instructions that explain that the Death Note is a special book that has the power to kill anyone if you write down their real name and picture their face in your mind. After testing the Death Note’s powers, Light decides to use it to rid the world of all evil and corrupt people, leaving behind only those he judges to be worthy. With criminals around the world suddenly meeting their demise, the police suspect that this isn’t just coincidence and hire the world’s top detective, whose alias is the letter “L”. Light and L face off in the rest of the series as Light tries to uncover L’s real name to escape suspicion, and L tries to figure out how a killer can kill with just a name and image.

The big rumor of course is that Light Yagami will be played by none other than Zac Effron


I don't really get why fans are getting so worked up over this. Zac Effron may be used to doing kiddie movies, but so what? He looks like Light, and could probably pull the role off pretty easily. The only person I'd rather see play the role

of Light is Drake from Drake and Josh.

See? Pretty strong resemblance don't you think?

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