For instance, the series has led to a multitude of live. While it has the same characters, the film does diverge from the manga in terms of the broader plot elements, sticking more closely to its basic points. When the 'Death Note' anime TV series premiered in 2006, it quickly established itself as a global phenomenon that's still felt today.
Stanfield asserted in an interview with Bustle that the film is a re-envisioning of the source material. He's hired by the government to track down who is responsible for the deaths outlined in the notebook. Kenji Urai kicks us off, before Hayato Kakizawa. L (played by Lakeith Stanfield) is a peculiar detective who has an obsession with candy and is another character who could be seen as insufficiently fleshed out. It seems that were watching both Kira actors sing whats presumably a key song from the Death Note stage show.
Well, that goes completely out the window when the power-hungry, psychopathic Mia covertly steals the notebook from Light and ends up writing his name down in the book. Death Note Films Come to Austin Film Festival (Aug 16, 2007) Death Notes L Films Heroine, 4-Nation Debut Revealed (Aug 13, 2007) Legend of Kamuis 2009 Live-Action Movie to Begin Filming (Aug 2. a spin-off from Kaneko Shusuke's Death Note (Desu noto, 2006) manga.
Ironically, these two completely mishandle the strict rules bound in the book and don't consider one of the most important rules in the Death Note: only the owner can write names in the notebook. Following two erotic V-Cinema titles, Nakata made his theatrical feature debut with. Light and Mia create a made-up entity named Kira (meaning "killer" in English) to take the blame for the mass killings of criminals happening around the world.