The Duffer Brothers’ new live-action series of “Death Note” already has a writer

The anime ‘Death Note’ has become one of the most popular among anime fans. Based on the manga created by Tsugumi Ōba and Takeshi Obata in 2003, this anime has been very successful across the planet. After the poor reception that had its first live-action adaptation on Netflix, the company is betting on a second installment.

Despite the poor result of Netflix’s first attempt to bring ‘Death Note’ into real action, a new series will now arrive, but the big difference is that this new adaptation will be made by the duffer brotherscreators of the legendary Stranger Things series, through their company Upside Down Pictures and the support of Netflix.

Now according to the source Deadlinethis new series in real action of ‘Death Note’ already has a screenwriter. Sara Halia Abdel-Megidwhose screenwriting expertise can be found in projects such as ‘The Devil in the White City’, as well as collaborating as a writing consultant on the new adaptation of ‘The Talisman’ that Upside Down Pictures is also preparing.

Likewise, Halia provided the music for “Doctor Who”, which demonstrates her diversity of talent in the entertainment industry, so it should be a good link for the Duffer brothers within the team on this new series. . And in addition to writing the script, Halia will also serve as executive producer.

So far no further information is known about this new adaptation of the Death Note manga, as it is just in the early stages of development, so we would not expect a release date in the short term, especially when two live action anime projects such as “One Piece “and” Yu Yu Hakusho “, don’t have a release date yet.

The other adaptations of “Death Note” to live action

Netflix had already bet on an adaptation of the popular anime ‘Death Note’, this was produced in 2017, and that was enough. badly received by fans from the original series and has also suffered bitter attacks on social networks. This film was directed by Adam Wingard and starred Nat Wolff, Lakeith Stanfield, Margaret Qualley and Willem Dafoe among others.

Also in In Japan there were two films that adapted anime to live action, released in 2006, with a spin off the following year and a sequel in 2016. The first two were directed by Shūsuke Kaneko. The spin-off centered on the character of L called: ‘Death Note: L Change the World’, directed by Hideo Nakata. The sequel, “Death Note: Light Up the New World”, was directed by Shinsuke Sato.