Adam Wingard posted couple little updates on his Death Note movie yesterday during his Reddit ama (which I was a little surprised by since he never talks about his movies before they're done) so I thought I'd share em here
>I think Anime are due for the same treatment that comics got when Nolan did Batman. I think the key is straying away from overt Anime style like Speed Racer and Dragon Ball and instead try to ground the stories in more relatable ways. With Death Note I tried to give it a gritty lived in look. With that said DEATH NOTE is going to be my most insane movie yet. It makes the Guest look conventional.
on what kinda score the movie will have
>Electronic driven but different than THE GUEST.
script >t loosely follows the events of the first five volumes or so. Lots of departure but the spirit is there. Its its own beast. If I had to compare it to one of my other films it would maybe resemble The Guest.
inb4 Sup Forums triggered because L is played by a black guy
Honestly, I think it's best it doesn't go for the anime style.
Animation and film are two different mediums, and what looks stylish in one looks retarded in the other.
Zachary Diaz
I hope Misa remains as bubbly nuts.
Joshua Gutierrez
chill dude, critics will tell you what you like
Chase Roberts
I thought we were meant to discuss television and film here
Kevin Ramirez
Speed Racer is a terrible movie I have no idea why so many people like it. literally made me throw up.
Gabriel Young
Why do people pretend this guy is a good director?
Nicholas Martinez
Another hack want to make his own movie, while studio gave him a job of making manga adaptation.
They never learn.
Josiah Russell
He is a good director. Not great but good. His films are 6-7/10 for me.
Jordan Rodriguez
why you pretend this guys isn't a good director?
Ian Hill
I'm more excited for the new Japanese Death Note movie also, there's suppose to be a 3 episode miniseries on Hulu Japan that bridges the 10 year gap starting the 16th.
Isaiah Anderson
>excited >about japanese movie Sorry, but japanese movies total shit. Like bad at everything.
Hunter Baker
Stop trying to replace my memories of huwaito ellu & raito
Cooper Sullivan
>Lots of departure but the spirit is there. Trainwrack incoming
Oliver Perez
Because it's utterly unique. I'd never say it's close to being outright good, but I'd recommend it since nothing else is like it sans the anime and F-Zero/Wipeout video games.
Brayden Phillips
I don't give a shit about your opinion, so there's nothing to be sorry about
Landon Barnes
Watching Jewwood fumble with Japanese properties they don't understand is hilarious.
Evan Gonzalez
The Guest is objectively pure kino
Brody Perry
Sounds good cause DN has a good premise but it goes to shit after L dies
Jason Davis
So, animeshit will be the next big thing? Will they make the transformation from capeshit to animeshit by making a One Punch Man movie?
Chase Sanchez
I'm not sure
Cameron Wright
>Gritty >Departure from the anime. Suddenly L being black both makes some sense and doesn't sound like the worst part of this movie. I'm going to try watching this with no expectations so I can't be disappointed.
Nathaniel Price
Whats bad about Death Note being gritty, would you prefer a quipfest. The show is literally about a serial killer.
Christian Perez
I fucking love Wingard. The Guest is one of my favorite movies so this all sounds great.
Sounds like he shares my thoughts on adaptations too. It's about the spirit of it and finding a new way to represent it. I read the manga and I liked it a lot. If I wanted that again I'd just read it again. I have no interest in the anime or the Japanese movies because there doesn't seem to be a point if I have the manga. This gives me a reason to be interested.
Wyatt Richardson
I've really enjoyed his movies and loved The Guest. I think this will be good
Ayden Martin
>ground the stories >gritty stopped reading there
Wyatt King
I just want a live action Jojo
Ryan Rivera
>not using some of the amazing original scores wew lad, sounds like they're making it electronic just for the millenials dubstep shit
Daniel Myers
The words "dark" and "gritty" are so overused now regarding to movies holy shit
Jeremiah Green
L being black is largely irrelevant to his character. he's a super genius orphan
Dominic Long
>Japanese movies because there doesn't seem to be a point if I have the manga the japanese films do their own thing, they deviate from the manga the anime and the anime films are just straight adaptations though yeah
Jaxson Cruz
Except that when you are remaking an anime story, which has anime features that are totally inappropriate for movies. Basically he's saying that he wants to take the very basic idea of death note and turn it into something else. Which is dumb. Might as well do something completely original without limiting yourself by something you admit doesn't even belong in your preferred medium.
John Lopez
NONNONONONNONONNOO DONT TOUCH MY ANIME KEEP MAKING CAPESHIT LEAVE ANIME OUT OF THIS
Cooper Cruz
If you look at japanese adaptations of anime, their live action is just as cartoony as the cartoons themselves. It makes the movie sort of wacky fanservice but still good and watchable for what it is. I have no idea why the west has to take everything so seriously -- death note is a fucking comic book. Not a deep political allegory or whatever this will end up being
Jayden Kelly
No, we just shitpost about critics opinions instead of creating our own
Ryan Rivera
>Caring about normalfag anime like Death Note and GitS
Real "Otaku" a.k.a. perverts' anime is safe forever from Hollywood user.
I think the last really good one I saw was Tampopo, and it's from 1985.
Jose Cruz
>my most insane movie yet
Carter Wilson
Blue is the Warmest Color was based on a manga-like French comics. Some J-Dramas were close in tone with your pervert animes (there was one about a guy who ejaculated perls, and efter the seventh one he dies. The pilot as him cumming on his best female friend's face by accident. Pretty cool tv series with a good mix of drama and comedy)
We're very close to getting a sexy american version of a sexy anime.
Austin Cooper
Holy fuck this is the hack helming Death Note? And he's butchering I Saw the Devil too?
>HUR DUR IT HAS "DEATH" IN THE TITLE AND HE MAKES SLASHY SHIT HE'S PERFECT!
Adam Baker
He's a good director with a personal style. I'll take that over the generic committee-generated Hollywood drivel any day.
Christian Scott
Uh oh
Justin Sanders
I just want to see them adapt Battle Tendency to see how Hollywood handles a heroic Nazi
Cameron Garcia
We have to get Phantom Blood first senpai
Jack King
I'm guessing he really would rather do something original, all else equal, but the money is in established properties. Sure, it's possible to do original movies like The Guest, but the studio won't be as happy, won't give you as much leeway, and might not pay as much.
Directors also like success and fame so they might choose to do an established property since it has a greater chance of bringing them those.
Finally, he might have a fondness for the series from having seen it or read it. Not sure about that though, could just be the script was shoved down his throat.
Elijah Parker
I'll take a filmmaker that has previously been responsible for a watchable move over both of them.
Logan Phillips
The Guest, You're Next and A Horrible Way to Die are good. even Pop Skull which is like his second movie made with no money is watchable and has really cool style.
Jayden Perez
I hope nigger dies in first half
Ian Perry
Enjoy Hispanic Mello and Samoan Near.
Owen Adams
>Hollywood chooses clean and stylized anime to adapt >"People will think its too "anime" if its not dark and gritty >make everything look like shit
Charles Jenkins
>One Punch Man movie Pls no. Watched anime recently and liked it.
Ryder Ross
thank god he isn't going for the anime style, it simply doesn't translate well in live-action. not even gooks made decent anime style live-action movies. pic related, a trainwreck
Cameron Baker
This There's no point in adapting something if you keep it identical to the original unless you're just trying to reach a new audience
Like I don't read manga, so the anime was great. But I don't get why manga readers would bother with anime at all. With this film, it's obvious that the majority of the audience will be fans of the original. So if they make it the same, but shitty since you can't tell that whole story well in 2 hours, then it would pointless and hated. But it sounds like this will offer something new
Sebastian Mitchell
>Anime and manga becoming the next Capeshit I fucking hope not, I guess this is how Sup Forumsmrades felt when normalfags started appropriating their hobbie just because it was the trendy thing to do.
Jaxson Edwards
Hey, it's another, "THIS WHITE GUY IS TOTALLY ASIAN" movie.
Daniel Ortiz
Also: >The Big Bang Theory continues on for another decade by switching cast to Stuart and everyone in the comic shop >All make anime and manga references instead of American comic book references >I'm such a nerd XD >Now becomes, I'm such a weeb XD
I don't want to live in a future like that
Brayden Brown
it's an american adaptation that takes place in america
Asher Wright
So it's a Netflix movie that literally panders to reddit. That's almost worse than the blackwashing of L.
Alexander Foster
It will be shit, it's not even worth considering.
Julian Gray
This and the Ghost in the Shell flop, will hopefully kill the anime adaptions once and for all.
Nathaniel Howard
Good. I don't want normalfags taking and ruining another hobby I like.
Camden Torres
So the black guy is L? I mean, they want me to suspend belief but it ain't happening with a black genius.
Dominic Lewis
I bet you're fun at parties
Gabriel Miller
Parties are packed with people who believe in diversity, a woman's right to vote, and anti-racism. Why would I be there?
Jayden Gutierrez
>Why would I be there? Yeah I figured. Your legs would probaly collapse under your own weight when dancing :(
Easton Fisher
>thinks covering his mouth won't let Kira kill him
A genius alright.
Aiden Nelson
>ad hominem Redditfag spotted
Parker Ross
>Lots of departure but the spirit is there. Its its own beast. So like the other live action movies, nice.
David Clark
>I think Anime are due for the same treatment that comics got Why do Americans have to steal shit from other countries?
Adam Bailey
You're the one who's reddit here
Noah Wood
But L is still a black man, therefore adaptation is shit.
1 thing to do and you did it wrong, bravo.
Jordan Martin
Most people who go out into the outside world and talk to people go to parties. If you find you're not engaging with other people outside of your family, perhaps you should ask what right you have to comment on society as it's clearly not your thing (like don't like football so i don't argue about what changes need to be made to improve it, I just don't watch it)
Carson Myers
Won't happen, they'll want to use it as an excuse to implement PC and SJW culture into those mediums but it'll never take off considering it's mostly women who write the really lewd stuff and secretly control things behind the surface even though it appears to a male dominated country.
Jack Howard
>Samoan Near >mfw imagining Light confronted by a 400lb Pacific Islander
Levi Thomas
What does that have to do with blacks being the dumbest members of society?
Noah Cox
I can't even imagine the marketing for this movie.... It will be the final fantasy movie all over again.
A bunch of weebs might get excited, but literally no one else will care.
Carson Perez
Death Note is a load of bullocks anyway. Episode 7 is one of the greatest episodes in television history, the rest is almost unwatchable, especially during the later episodes.
CGI Ryuk and Ryuk in general was a mistake. The Death God should've just been played by Willem Dafoe. No wacky design, no costume, just Dafoe in a suit or something.
Jonathan Bennett
>1 thing to do and you did it wrong
I didn't realize the story stopped being about magic killing books
Eli Phillips
>A bunch of weebs might get excited, but literally no one else will care.
No self-respect weeb will watch this. There is no kawaii Asians here.
Jason Lewis
>just Dafoe in a suit or something This meme of making supernatural villains just white guys in suits needs to end
Luke Murphy
Episode seven is the tennis match, right?
Lincoln Brooks
>Electronic driven I TAKE THE CHIP AND >B-B-B-B-B-B-BONFIRE EAT IT!
Asher Hill
Japan could never make a good live-action Death Note movie no matter how many times they try, may as well let Americans give it the next shot.
And the best option is for Wingard to go his own direction with the source material. Would you seriously want a straight adaption of the anime? You can literally just watch the fucking anime for that.
I don't understand why people are so obsessed with fidelity to the source material. The exciting part is seeing what someone else can do with the concepts and character and play around with them.
Cameron Cooper
Doesn't have to be a white guy, I just went with who was cast as the VA.
But it makes sense since white men in suits are the evil in the world, apparently And Wingard is probably dumb enough to think Ryuk is evil
