There was a new clip and trailer released for the live action Death Note. They are both on the attached video.
This is one of the releases I am most looking forward to this year. Loved the anime and I trust Netflix to do a good movie.
There are going to be quite a few diferences which isn't going to be a bad thing. The anime was so good that it would be difficult to make just a cut down version lasting two hours so they need to make something that borrows from the source material without trying to carbon copy it.
Looking at the.clip and trailer, the characters personalities appear to be somewhat different from those in the original series. I am sold on Ryuk. Willem Dafoe will be perfect but I have noticed the change in his character who was always rather impartial before and tended to just watch what Light did with bemusement, yet here he appears to be more manipulative, even pushing Light to kill.
Light himself appears more of a typical high school emo rather than the calm genius his anime counterpart is. Instead of suspecting thhat Death Gods exist he appears surprised and fearful of Ryuk when he first meets him calling him an '8ft demon mother****er'. That was pretty funny but I'm not sure I prefer this version of Light. Will have to watch the whole thing to find out.
As for L. He seems cool. I like what I have seen so far and I am glad he still sits in the awkward squatted position as he does in the original.
What do you guys think, you like what you have seen? Will you be watching?