Back in 2014 it looked like we might be getting an adaptation of the classic Japanese Manga Death Note, directed by Good Will Hunting and Milk’s Gus Van Sant. That never happened, but now we’re getting one from Adam Wingard, the man behind You’re Next, The Guest, Blair Witch and the upcoming Godzilla vs. Kong.
However, it’s already stirred controversy for changing the ethnicity and cultural origins of the characters, with petitions and calls for a boycott against the film.
Here’s the synopsis: ‘Based on the famous Japanese manga written by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, Death Note follows a high school student who comes across a supernatural notebook, realizing it holds within it a great power; if the owner inscribes someone’s name into it while picturing their face, he or she will die. Intoxicated with his new godlike abilities, the young man begins to kill those he deems unworthy of life.
‘The Netflix original film is directed by Adam Wingard (Blair Witch, You’re Next) and stars Nat Wolff (Paper Towns), Margaret Qualley (The Leftovers), Lakeith Stanfield (Get Out), Paul Nakauchi (Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End), Shea Whigham (American Hustle) and Willem Dafoe (Spider-Man) as the voice of Ryuk.’
The film will debut exclusively on Netflix on August 25th. Take a look at the new trailer below. [Read more…]
Adam Wingard quickly got an impressive reputation in horror circles with A Horrible Way To Die, You’re Next and The Guest, before going a little more mainstream with last year’s Blair Witch. However, he’s not planning to jump massively up the budget scale, with by far his biggest movie yet, as THR reports that he’s just signed on to helm Godzilla vs. Kong.
It’s certainly a bold (if short) synopsis to say a movie is ‘One of the scariest movies in decades, THE WOODS reinvents horror with a completely fresh and terrifying take on the genre.’ However, that’s the claim being made for Adam Wingard’s latest.
Dan Stevens may be the bad guy in The Guest, but boy is he looking good. Indeed, if I had to have a a possible killer in my house, at least he’d make a pretty one. To show us just what that would be like, a new trailer for the has arrived.
Dan Stevens had huge success with Downton Abbey, and now he’s trying to segue from that to film stardom. He’s got Summer In February hitting UK cinemas this Friday, and we should be able to see him in the Wikileaks flick The Fifth Estate and the Liam Neeson starrer A Walk Among The Tombstones in the next few months.
Adam Wingard has definitely been showing off his directorial cred with low budget thrillers such as A Horrible Way to Die and You’re Next, which have caught the attention of Hollywood. Now 
