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Adam Wingard (“The Guest”) is set to helm “Death Note”, Warner Bros’ six-years-in-the-making manga adaptation.
Despite acquiring the script six years ago, Warner Bros finally seems to be getting this project off the ground.
The film will adapt the horror manga story which centres on a student who discovers a supernatural notebook which allows him to kill anyone by writing the victim’s name. The student then decides to cleanse the world of whom he deems ‘evil’, however a cat-and-mouse game ensues when a reclusive police officer begins tracking the student.
Roy Lee, Dan Lin, Jason Hoffs and Masi Oka will produce. Doug Davison and Brian Witten are exec producing.
THR first reported the news.
