{"id":62489,"date":"2014-07-10T09:56:43","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T08:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=62489"},"modified":"2014-07-10T17:47:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T16:47:42","slug":"death-note-american-remake-linked-to-brilliant-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/death-note-american-remake-linked-to-brilliant-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Note US remake could be amazing after all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Death-Note.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62490\" alt=\"Death-Note\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Death-Note.jpeg\" width=\"616\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Death-Note.jpeg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Death-Note-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Death-Note-510x286.jpeg 510w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\"><\/a>Death Note<\/em><\/strong>, the fantastic Japanese manga series which had a similarly great anime run, before a couple of not-so-great live-action films, is getting an American remake, and the rumoured choice of director is a big surprise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tracking-board.com\/tb-exclusive-gus-van-sant-takes-over-death-note\/\">The Tracking Board<\/a>, whose track record is a bit hit and miss, report that Gus Van Sant will direct. It feels like a big change for the director of <strong><em>Good Will Hunting<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>My Own Private Idaho<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Elephant<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>Milk<\/em><\/strong>, but on the other hand the film deals with isolation, delusion and violence, albeit in a heightened and supernatural way.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Death Note<\/em><\/strong> is the story of a high school teen who finds a notebook. When he writes someone&#x2019;s name in the book, they die. The book previously belonged to an evil spirit, who starts to watch over the boy as he decides that he&#x2019;ll use it as a force for good, cleansing the world of its evil. As the body count rises, the police react and a nameless agent (see, try writing that in a notebook) leads the hunt.<\/p>\n<p>The US remake was written by Shane&#xA0;Black,&#xA0;Anthony Bagarozzi, and&#xA0;Charles Mondry. Black was set to direct, but left to work on the <strong><em>Predator<\/em><\/strong> sequel\/reboot, and Van Sant has reportedly stepped in.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can buy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Death-Note-Complete-Tetsuro-Araki\/dp\/B002AF4BSA\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1404982506&sr=8-1&keywords=death+note&tag=scifinowmag-21\">the complete <em>Death Note<\/em> on DVD for &#xA3;38.97 at Amazon.co.uk.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rumoured director for the live-action Death Note movie is a surprising choice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":62490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[2361,3881],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Death-Note.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}