Kira's actions draw the attention of enigmatic international detective L, who deduces Kira is a Seattle-based student with close ties to the police and indirectly concludes Kira can only kill by knowing the name and face of their victim. The two decide to work together to rid the world of criminals and terrorists, with Light deciding on using the name Kira (derived from the Japanese trans-literation for "Killer", so as to direct investigative attention away from their continent). At school, Light shows Mia the book and demonstrates its power by killing a known criminal felon during a televised hostage situation. ![]() That night, Light tries it again, using the name of his mother's killer, Anthony Skomal, and learns the next morning from his father James, a police detective, that Skomal died as Light had written. Ryuk convinces Light to use the notebook Light writes down a bully's name and shortly thereafter witnesses him being killed in a freak accident. Light meets Ryuk, a death god and the notebook's owner. In Seattle, Washington, high schooler Light Turner stumbles across the Death Note, a mysterious leather-bound notebook with instructions that state that by writing a person's name down within it, that person will die in the manner prescribed. As of September 2021, a sequel was in development, with Greg Russo attached to write the screenplay. The film received generally negative reviews from critics. The plot follows an American high school student named Light Turner (portrayed by Wolff) who finds a mysterious supernatural notebook known as the Death Note, which can kill anyone whose name is written in its pages, using it to murder criminals under the alias of Kira, while a secretive detective only known as L (portrayed by Stanfield) seeks to find him.ĭeath Note premiered at FrightFest on August 24, 2017, and was released on August 25, by Netflix. The film stars Nat Wolff, LaKeith Stanfield, Margaret Qualley, Shea Whigham, Paul Nakauchi, Jason Liles, and Willem Dafoe. ![]() Death Note is a 2017 American supernatural crime thriller film directed by Adam Wingard from a screenplay by Charles Parlapanides, Vlas Parlapanides, and Jeremy Slater, loosely based on the manga of the same name by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata.
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