The rise of the love of live-action has been introduced by Netflix’s One Piece. The series has mesmerized the audience and the fans with its plot, characters, editing, and more. It has become the biggest successful live-action series of any anime ever produced. The story although a little bit modified, has grasped the attention of everyone and has managed to overthrow the curse of live-action failures.
Before One Piece, any kind of live-action, be it Dragon Ball or Fullmetal Alchemist was criticized by the audience and got a lot of hate on the Internet. Many creators tried to bring out the perfect adaptations, but due to unaccounted limitations failed severely. One such failure was Netflix’s own Death Note directed by Adam Wingard. Though it got a very good initial response, it failed to become a successful hit and got the title of one of Netflix’s worst Live Action Adaptations.
Adam Wingard Explained the Process of Making Death Note
The Netflix’s adaptation has been modified a lot and this somehow led to failure of the movie. Director Wingard in his interview with The Hollywood Reporter explained the reason and compared his main character to Hayden Christensen’s Darth Vader. He said:
“We viewed views Light’s trajectory as “being sort of an Anakin Skywalker type of thing that progresses over the course of a couple of movies. Ultimately, what we did was, the original Light character from the source material is in this film. What’s happened is it’s kind of been split into the two characters. Light and Mia in this case make up the whole character. It’s really not just one or the other.”
Death Note is a Japanese manga series written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. The plot revolves around Light Yagami, a brilliant high school student who discovers a mysterious notebook: the “Death Note,” which belonged to the shinigami Ryuk and provides the user the extraordinary ability to kill anyone whose name is written in its pages. Light’s subsequent attempts to use the Death Note to carry out a worldwide massacre of individuals he considers immoral was one of the biggest highlight of the series, and splitting it in two parts was probably the reason for the movie’s downfall.
Will There Be A Netflix’s Death Note Sequel?
Wingard pointed out that he left the conclusion open for a sequel because when he first approached Netflix about the adaptation, he pitched it as at least a two-film series, if not three, with the first being the origin narrative. Talking about the sequel, he said:
“We definitely designed the film so it plays a closed loop. Sequels are never guaranteed. They have to be earned. On some level, I really love that the movie ends with all the characters damaged. It’s such an unconventional ending for any kind of comic book film, and I really like that.”
Currently there are no rumors or hints about Death Note’s sequel being in production, but if it ever happens, the creators may need to up their levels as they will be in competition with the current talk of the town, One Piece Live Action.
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Source: Looper
