Netflix announces it's taking another stab at a live-action Death Note

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A new Death Note live-action series is on the way to Netflix.

As reported by Deadline, Netflix has teamed up with Upside Down Pictures, the production company helmed by Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer, to create a new live-action adaptation of Death Note. The new show will not be connected to Netflix's infamous 2017 adaptation of Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's widely celebrated manga series. More details about the new adaptation, including its cast, crew and release date, have yet to be announced.

 

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Read from CBR

A new Death Note live-action series is on the way to Netflix.

As reported by Deadline, Netflix has teamed up with Upside Down Pictures, the production company helmed by Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer, to create a new live-action adaptation of Death Note. The new show will not be connected to Netflix's infamous 2017 adaptation of Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's widely celebrated manga series. More details about the new adaptation, including its cast, crew and release date, have yet to be announced.

You love to see a redemption arc but I hope it's not 1-1 with the anime.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Death note is about the only decent anime that can be made into live acation, is this the version to finally pull that off?

 

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Halia Abdel-Meguid has been tapped to write and executive produce Death Note, Netflix's planned live-action series based on the Japanese manga of the same name by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. A graduate of the American Film Institute, Abdel-Meguid got her start as an actor and musician in London before pursuing screenwriting. In addition to Death Note, she is writing The Devil in the White City, the upcoming Hulu series based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Erik Larson.

According to Deadline, Abdel-Meguid is a "longtime fan" of the original Death Note manga, as well as the anime adaptation. She also speaks fluent Japanese and even lived in Tokyo for a time.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Read an update from CBR:

Halia Abdel-Meguid has been tapped to write and executive produce Death Note, Netflix's planned live-action series based on the Japanese manga of the same name by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. A graduate of the American Film Institute, Abdel-Meguid got her start as an actor and musician in London before pursuing screenwriting. In addition to Death Note, she is writing The Devil in the White City, the upcoming Hulu series based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Erik Larson.

According to Deadline, Abdel-Meguid is a "longtime fan" of the original Death Note manga, as well as the anime adaptation. She also speaks fluent Japanese and even lived in Tokyo for a time.

Sounds promising.