lightskintwin
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You could change it to another race, who flees through a relatively racially homogenous country of a different race.
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Principal photography for the Death Note film has begun + Light Turner name change
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You could change it to another race, who flees through a relatively racially homogenous country of a different race.
not psycho
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You could, but it would be a harmful change. Dr. Tenma is very specifically a Japanese man in Germany, and the history of Germany and Japan strongly affect how the story feels.
Pyramid head
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Light Turner and Mia Sutton sound like Emmerdale Farm characters.
You could make him a minority for starters such as black and that would generally work just as well.
A huge part of Death Note is Kira (Light) being worshipped by loads of people as a god. They've literally changed Light into a white savior.
I mean, his position as a white savior is villainous in the first place no? He gets a reputation of being essentially a savior rather than being one.
ComputerBlue
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I didn't even know this was happening.
But Light Turner? Fuck off....
But Light Turner? Fuck off....
lightskintwin
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i haven't read the manga, nor watched the anime so I have no idea how harmful a change it would be. I see Hollywood has been trying to adapt this for years, do you honestly think they were going to cast a Japanese man as the lead?
Eh, it's all a matter of perspective.
Kira is viewed as a legitimate savior for many people in universe. The ending in the manga even makes it clear that there are still people who worship him. Even one of the major members of the investigative team, Matsuda, struggles with his feelings that Kira might be in the right for a big stretch of the story.
Modest Mauser
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That may be the perspective of various characters, but Light is unambiguously a villain from the manga's point of view. He's not a white savior if he's the clear villain of the story, imo
……forgetit
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Not surprised, just fucked up lol
Valkerionseven
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Seems like a good way to do an anime adaptation, keep the name and premise but change the setting. No white teen with the last name Yagami and what not.
I hope they do and make it work nicely.
If it was set in Japan still, sure I'd have a problem with it. But it sounds like they're changing the location to the US.
I actually like the idea of changing Ryku in a Archangel(after all they are the Angels of Death), the symbolism was already kind of there and Ryku sounding like Luke
There were rumors that they were planning to cut shinigami from the story.
Which would be, undoubtedly, the wrong fucking move, but the entire existence of this thing is already incredibly questionable, so
Septimus Prime
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Shinigami → Reaper
Done.
Done.
RedAssedApe
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pls leave the potato chip scene in...pls begging you
How so? For an adaptation you could easily cut Ryuk from the story and not lose anything. The story just needs the notebook.
Somebody didn't make it to the ending...
Ryuk killing Light in the end is crucial. Ryuk in general is central to the entire plot.
it's also something that sets death note apart. having just the book would be bland and boring.
I think it's a fairly safe assumption they're not doing a full manga adaptation and it'll probably have a new ending.
I do wonder how faithful the characters will be.
The anime modified the ending. The 2006 movies heavily modified the ending.
Ryuk still killed Light,
lightskintwin
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Here's the thing though, 3 out of the 4 producer's (decision makers) are Asian Americans.
So if they're not concerned with casting Asian Americans, and Asian Americans aren't concerned with calling them out, then i don't care and focus on the quality of the movie itself.
a very cute dog
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light light l-light turner
he be wishin' for a burner
to kill everybody walkin'
you know that his soul in the furnace
he be wishin' for a burner
to kill everybody walkin'
you know that his soul in the furnace
a Black L...really hope they keep the quirky/emo ish vibe L gave off. And light be a serious smartass. I hope they kinda go their own direction with death note show, especially the later episodes ...pls don't include nero, and I hope the show has its own ending cause fuck death note ending.
I mean, they could just not have that happen and make a new ending. I just don't think having an explicitly Japanese cultural element in an American adaptation to be faithful to an ending that the movie is likely not going to be faithful to in the first place all that important.
You must not be familiar with Death Note at all. Ryuk is a main character, arguably more important than even L (who is also critical to the story). It begins on Ryuk's decision, and it ends on Ryuk's decision. When you suggest Ryuk isn't important it's like saying Peter Parker doesn't need to get a spider bite. It's like saying you could tell Harry Potter without Dumbeldore. It's like saying Othello doesn't need an Iago character to work. There's absolutely no Death Note plot without the Death Note making it into the human world. Ryuk is the sole reason that even happened.
Jean Grey Will Rise
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This is gonna flop so hard and I can't wait
lightskintwin
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It all depends with how faithful to the source material this film adaptation is trying to be. The very concept of the Death Notebook itself is intriguing enough in it's own right, that you could write a completely original script with different lore around it and still stay true to the spirit of the manga/anime.
Livingskeletons
If I pulled that off, would you die?
Well there goes the whitewashing argument.
Modest Mauser
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I disagree, I'm not saying removing the shinigami is necessarily the right move, but you could take them out and just have Light find the book and the story would move on just fine.
The thing is that it probably won't. It's going to Netflix. It may not do well enough with subscribers for Netflix to do a sequel, but the movie's presumably automatically getting it's money from Netflix. I have to imagine Warner knew it wasn't worth funding themselves, though, as they had it (and had great success with the 2006 films in Japan). The studio behind Dawn of Justice and Tarzan didn't have confidence in this.
King Gilga
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Well it can't possibly be worse than a Japanese live action.
Jean Grey Will Rise
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Oh, I see..... sad. I kinda wanted to see how it would be at the global box office
The core premise is the notebook's abilities, it's abuse, and the cat and mouse game that results from it. The fact that Ryuk exists and is the one who dropped it are entirely incidental to the main plot. It might actually be beneficial to drop Ryuk since he's a cartoony grim reaper in a supernatural crime thriller, and he spends most of the plot doing little of consequence other than being there.
Subpar Spatula
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The entirety of Death Note is a lot of exposition that will shorten it to maybe 2 movies. No one wants to hear Light fucking narrate how he's super amazing by hiding the book in a bag of chips.
You can do this with most anime because they need to fill those minutes so they'll have the character or narrator say what's literally going on to waste time. Hunter X Hunter is the biggest offender.
Ryuk actually does nothing for the plot. He's a reason behind the book but it's not explored. The rules for the book itself are more important than Ryuk. You could literally write Ryuk's part as additional need-to-know on the inside of the book and the point will get across. His commentary and prodding of Light don't interfere with the plot, the only one that does is the female waifu shinigami. Even then that was horribly done.
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