Yeah, this is happening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS9UW2xjdqE


The trailer music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIGicsFvcJ4

I saw some ads about it which featured Ryuk, and at least that one is similar to the anime.

Such a shame that it won't be in theaters, though. I'd like to see that on a very big screen accompanied by my acquaintances and strangers and a pack of extra salty popcorn like only the cinema I attend does

This also reminds me I never got to see the full anime. Considering I may have a one month hiatus if the new Yu-Gi-Oh spinoff is actually delayed to May, maybe I can use the time to watch it and then I can comment on how true to the anime the movie is.

So what's the story to Death Note? Some edgy, emo, outcast kid is just sitting by himself and being a loser, and then a magic book falls out of the sky that can kill people?

EX Palen : I see so many people hating the trailer, but what got me to like it was how in sync the music and visuals were, and I LOVED the music.

Baritron : When you said that, I immideatly thought of Robbie from gravity Falls getting fairy god parents.

I've been actually looking forward to this for a while. I always like to give new adaptations a chance and judge them on their own merit, not how "faithful" they are the original; if I wanted to see Death Note the exact way the manga and anime was, I'd just go read the manga or watch the anime. So I hope they'll bring something new and interesting to the table while still retaining the spirit and themes of the original.

Also, I didn't think it would be set in Seattle! That makes me very happy. Though now I have to wonder if Seattle has a disproportionate amount of narcissists living there (Light Yagami, Frasier Crane... just kidding, Frasier's not a narcissist).

At Baritron; Nope its about a college law student having power to kill people because "his Justice" is way better than anyone else. However, another student in his class is way better at finding mysterious cases and helps solves them. So the guy with the deathnote tries to not get caught and the other is wounding why people keep dying more often than normal.

p.s summoning is disable or something hope it gets fix.

mastergame : Summoning is fine, you just misspelled the summon.

And does anyone know where the song from the trailer is from?

Baritron : Do your research, it's a movie based on a popular anime and manga :V

Also, love how the comments b**** over everything.

"They made the main lead a white dude!"

"They're ruining the story!"

"It's not Japanese!"

I swear, these people are acting worse than the people who were against the Beauty and the Beast film. 

I want to see this movie. I'm interested in what it will show.

xxAriaxx : Even even people who are ok with the whiteness are complaining that they didn't change their names to reflect it.

   I've had mixed feelings about this ever since I heard it was in production.  After Dragonball Evolution, I've become extremely picky about live action anime movies.  That being said, I'm going to watch it at some point anyway since it's Death Note, which had been my favorite anime until more recently when I watched Tokyo Ghoul.  I'm not sure how I feel about Nat Wolff as Light but I think Willem Dafoe will make for an amazing Ryuk.  In the end though, it's mainly the performance that matters.  

   I just hope they have an interesting spin on it and don't stray too far away from the source.  I'm alright with a few changes, in fact I hope they make it a little different since It is an american retelling of the story after all.  However, completely changing the rules of the death note or something like that would be a big no-no.  Like how Dragonball Evolution made kamehameha do all sorts of things it wasn't supposed to do (for instance, how Roshi used it to heal goku).  As long as they don't do something stupid like that, it should be fine really.

well i didn't watch the anime so this looks interesting.

I think it is going to suck hard. But let's see if the acting ends up being a lot better than they looked in the trailer...

But hey, at least we didn't get a SJW Death Note reboot. So there's that.

After hours of searching, I finally found the song from the trailer, and I still love it so much. If anything, the trailer music will be what gets me to see this, like how Seven nation Army got me to see GI Joe 2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIGicsFvcJ4

I probably won't see it for years after it comes out. Yes, I did like the anime Death Note, but it isn't particularly my thing anymore. The movie will probably take all of the bad and add to it with more bad.

I'll watch it if it's a so-bad-its-good movie, though. Those are cool.