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Adam Wingard directed Death Note, a 2017 American supernatural crime thriller released by Netflix. The screenplay was written by Charles and Vlas Parlapanides and Jeremy Slater, loosely based on the manga by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata.
Death Note premiered at FrightFest on the 24th of August 2017 and was released by Netflix the following day, on the 25th of August 2017.
The cast includes Nat Wolff as Light Turner, LaKeith Stanfield as detective L, and Margaret Qualley as Mia Sutton. Shea Whigham, Paul Nakauchi, Jason Liles, and Willem Dafoe also star, with Liles and Dafoe both playing the death god Ryuk.
The film follows Light Turner, an American high school student who finds a supernatural notebook that kills anyone whose name is written in it. Using the alias Kira, he murders criminals around the globe while detective L tries to track him down.
Death Note received mostly mixed to negative reviews. It holds a 36 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 77 reviews, and Metacritic gave it a score of 43 out of 100 based on 14 critics.
The film used real footage of a 2010 train collision in Buizingen, Belgium, in which 19 people died, for a train accident scene. Both the rail operator and survivors of the crash criticized the film for using the footage.
A sequel has been in development since the 22nd of August 2018, with Greg Russo writing the screenplay. On the 20th of April 2021, Russo said it would be more faithful to the manga than the first film.