Gee, you guys at Warner are really slow on the uptake aren't you?

There is already 2 live action movies of Death Note! I know because I've seen both!

Death Note was done in '06 and Death Note II: The Last Name was done in '07. Both are very faithful to the anime series and the Mangas. Can't these Gaijins leave things alone?????

congratulations you've seen two live action japanese movies, why can't warner give it a go? You might be surprised with the outcome.

How many "adaptations of existing properties" has Hollywood screwed up by trying to "improve" them?

Sadly, we all know that there hasn't been an original idea in Hollywood in decades

@stumbler
You obviously have no clue how many times hollywood has messed up adaptations. Theres a looong list and very very few successful movies, they all say its going to be a huge franschise, and yet the majority never makes it to have a sequel. Besides with death note already avaliable both manga, anime, and live action, then theres really no way they can come up with nything new, only end up mking something up that isnt faithful.

Thanks Red! Right off the bat I can at least 2. Dragonball, which tanked right out oft the gate and the upcoming Avatar which features a mostly Caucasian cast. I have hopes that Cameron can make it work, but they are not very high.

Off the Death Note topic,
Does anyone know what happened to the new Robotech movie Tobey Maguire was going to make ?
Is it my imagination or companies/actors/directors/producers/writers keeps pumping out new movie announcements every week, but in reality only a few movies ever get made and the rest are floating in the development hell abyss.
Maybe its what we all want, movie gossip, and its why im here

Hey Paris Hilton is making a new Sci-Fi movie... in my dreams

Bluesman, James Cameron's 'Avatar' has nothing to do with the anime, at all. It is a totally original story that may well change the face of movie sci-fi. At least, that's what 'they' say....

M Night Shayalaman is directing 'The Last Airbender' film. Make of that what you will....

Wonder if Warner will have the balls to do an Asian cast or if they will set it in America and have some stereotype be the badguy.

Hollywood never learns. You could get William Shakespeare to write an adaptation of 'Death Note' and it still wouldn't work. What makes Death Note work is that it is essentially Japanese in style and tone, even though the anime featured English dubbing, it didn't take away from the essential Japanese quality that made it unique. you Americanize it, you essentially rob it of its soul, which is what Hollywood has done to other adaptations of Japanese films, and its pissing me off!!!

oh, the actors will be caucasian. i have little doubt about that. also, New York, there is little doubt about that.

im getting burned out on these "adaptations" (most are everything from almost to train wreck). and what really gets me is that the studio has them make it for a "wider audience" when in it's original form, it became a smash hit (and im sure im not the first to say this, not even 10th) which is the reason the studio HAD to make it. and this one doesnt look like its starting well either

"The story centers on a college student" he wasnt in college, he was in high school. and yess, it sounds like nit picking. but understand, to many, when Hollywood says "adapt" many people get scared. to sacred people, Hollywood hasnt deserved the benefit of the doubt.

I agree. Dicaprio is adapting Akira. This version is going to be in New York, which will be "Japanese-like". (source Anime News Network). I don't know why Hollywood can make the locations in Japan. Do they have something against Japan?

@ wildstar: The Toby Maguire/Harmony Gold/WB co-production of Robotech is slated for 2012. Last year, Original A list screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan took a stab at a script that was eventually scrapped. Miles Miller and Albert Gough (Smallville, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor) got the green light to write and that's the last we've heard about it. A very high profile WB producer whose name escape me now and Jason Netter, are attached to the project. Realistically, don't expect to hear anything on Robotech until San Diego Comic Con.

This movie will suck, and especially if they put Zac Efron as Light like everyone is rumoring. It will all turn out like the Dragon Ball movie, a big joke.

Hayden Panettiere as Misa, enough said.

i think that an american version could be good but i'm not sure i'll every be happy with and American actors for the charators lol

American version of an anime .. good? *Shakes Head* It'll probably be the same thing with Cowboy Bebop but I have bit more faith in it since they are claiming it will stay true to the anime.

please dont f*ck it up is all I say.
This (along with GITS) is my favorite anime tv show.

OMG for crying out loud.
the manga is amazing, the anime show (eng subed) is amazing the LIVE JAPANESE adaptations are amazing cause there all faithfull to the series.
Wb is just gonna screw us all over and cast the wrong types of people and make a complete dragonball out of it.

its there money so dont worry about it, if it ends up all screwy then you will save 8 bucks and 3 houre of time

As much as I don't want to I have to agree with most of what is said here so far. I normally like to give these things a chance but I don't have much faith right now. I will say that I don't think moving the setting of the story will effect it as much as people think. The major problem is once Hollywierd makes one change thet can't stop themselves from making more until you have a hard time recognizing the property. If they could learn to leave the story alone when they move the setting everything would definately come out better. But thats just my opinion.

You know what the studio or director or actors are going to say, they know about the manga, and anime, and 3 movies. So this i what they're going to say, theyre going to keep it the core of it faithful, keep the essence of it you know. But they want to give it a fresh new out look to attract people who never heard of it and the people who love it a reason to watch a new version.......I promise theyre going to say something like that. Just like they said with Dragon ball, Speed racer, doom, and all the others that died and are forgotten.
You know if they want to go for something original with it, how about this, there was more then one death note, in fact a whole world of death notes, why not just simply have a story in the death note universe where it has nothing to do with the one in Japan, but it involves another death note in America with new people and new moral dillemas. The last ones were about highschool teens why not let it be a soldier or a criminal, or I dont know a satan worshiper who gets their hands on it. I don't know just those alone would have different morality tales. It doesnt have to be the same old who judges who lives and who dies, cause they did that to death in the Japanese death note (no pun attended).
We've already seen 3 of those freaky looking reapers, we can always see new ones, I mean if Hollwood is trying to start a franschise they could at least not make a mutated cloned story.....

I think you all are on crack. The Japanese live action adaptations were not even close to the mangas. And they tried to squeeze 13 volumes into 2 moives? For an example, "L" died in the middle of the series from his name being written in the deathnote in order to save Misa's life. In the movie Light died and "L" survived. How is that faithful to the series. That is just one big example. The movies didn't even touch on the 2 people who actually caught Light at the end.

...the live actions that japan did wernt faithful atall to the manga and anime...all 3 were completely different...geeze..have you even seen the anime??

I personally really want to see this happen. Who knows? WB might be able to fix the train wreck that was Death Note The Last Name.

And get Chase Crawford to be Light.