Death note ............

[Supa troop]

Over the past couple of nights here in the UK (Film4) they have being showing a live action version of Death Note

now im not into manga in any way bt the preview of this looked so good i wanted to take a look sadly ive missed both episodes as they are on late and i had long since fallen asleep on the sofa waiting for it to start

im totally gutted ive missed these ive found the Film 4 website but sadly there doesnt seem to be an option to watch the movie online so my hope is to catch a re-run.

anyone here seen these before and do they live upto the hype,

ive read that Warner Bros. has hired screenwriters Charley and Vlas Parlapanides to adapt the manga into a screenplay. Unlike the Japanese Death Note live-action movie trilogy, the US-version will be directly adapted from the material in the manga and will not follow the storyline of the Japanese movie adaptations. On January 13, 2011, it was announced that Shane Black has been hired to direct the film, with the script being written by Anthony Bagarozzi and Charles Mondry.

 

[Supa troop]

 

[ConvergencePro]

I watched them in Japanese about a year and a half ago and found them very enjoyable to watch. I have watched the show and read the manga. The films are more of a summed up version of the story and are not the same roughly half way through if i recall but It didn't take away from the films.

 

[Kerr Avon]

LOVED this live action set of movies. The first was an amazing cat and mouse movie, the second was good but just didn't have the magic the first had. E

 

[Nwerke]

The first live action movie is just great. I liked that it doesn't follow the manga/anime too closely, since the last third or so of at least the anime kinda meanders a bit. The film just condenses that down to a completely killer finale. Top job!

 

[Boomer]

Agreed. The first live action movie was great. The manga was a good read though.

 

[Wes R]

Walmart has these things in the marked down area all the time. I figure i'll check them out when they hit the 5.00 bin with all the other movies i want.