By If you didn’t like Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, then you can go straight to hell.
Shane Black has just been signed to direct an adaptation of Death Note, one of two manga that I’ve actually managed to read and enjoy over the past few years. The manga concerns itself with a brilliant high school student who discovers the Death Note, a notebook that can cause the death of any person who’s name is written in the pages. The boy begins killing criminals, becoming something of a cult hero, and a bizarre detective with a penchant for sweets named L is responsible for stopping him. It’s ridiculously enjoyable, and it spawned two live-action movies in Japan condensing the events of the manga and the subsequent anime.
Black had this to say about the project, “It’s my favorite manga, I was just struck by its unique and brilliant sensibility. What we want to do is take it back to that manga, and make it closer to what is so complex and truthful about the spirituality of the story, versus taking the concept and trying to copy it as an American thriller.†He will be directing from a script written by…
If you didn’t like Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, then you can go straight to hell.
Shane Black has just been signed to direct an adaptation of Death Note, one of two manga that I’ve actually managed to read and enjoy over the past few years. The manga concerns itself with a brilliant high school student who discovers the Death Note, a notebook that can cause the death of any person who’s name is written in the pages. The boy begins killing criminals, becoming something of a cult hero, and a bizarre detective with a penchant for sweets named L is responsible for stopping him. It’s ridiculously enjoyable, and it spawned two live-action movies in Japan condensing the events of the manga and the subsequent anime.
Black had this to say about the project, “It’s my favorite manga, I was just struck by its unique and brilliant sensibility. What we want to do is take it back to that manga, and make it closer to what is so complex and truthful about the spirituality of the story, versus taking the concept and trying to copy it as an American thriller.” He will be directing from a script written by Anthony Bagarozzi and Charles Mondry. This is relatively far outside of Black’s more down-to-earth wheelhouse, but I’m excited. The man’s a talent that hasn’t been able to catch a break recently, so I’m pulling hard for this project. Man, I wish I had written something there that sounded less sexual.
[Via Collider]