Death Note (2017 film)
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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. The film stars Nat Wolff, LaKeith Stanfield, Margaret Qualley, Shea Whigham, Paul Nakauchi, Jason Liles, and Willem Dafoe. 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 on 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.
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Directed by | Adam Wingard |
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Cinematography | David Tattersall |
Edited by | Louis Cioffi |
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Distributed by | Netflix |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English[lower-alpha 1] |
Budget | $40 million[1] |
Death Note premiered at FrightFest on August 24, 2017, and was released on August 25, by Netflix. The film received generally negative reviews from critics. As of September 2021[update], a sequel is in development, with Greg Russo attached to write the screenplay.