Keith Stanfield, who impressed audiences and critics alike as Snoop in
Straight Outta Compton and Earl in
Me, Earl and the Dying Girl, has joined director Adam Wingard’s live-action adaptation of the popular
Death Note manga for Netflix. The film also stars Nat Wolff as Light and Margaret Qualley as Misa Amane. Stanfield's role is currently unspecified but fans are in agreement that he'll likely be playing "L". Of course, the names of the characters created in Tsugumi Ohba and illustrator Takeshi Obata's 2003 manga are expected to be romanized.
Filming on the project will reportedly began later this Summer. Jeremy Slater (“Fantastic Four”) wrote the most recent draft of the screenplay.
Death Note is a 2003 Japanese manga from writer Tsugumi Ohba and artist Takeshi Obata. The series concluded in 2006 at 12 volumes. An anime adaptation began airing in 2006 and concluded in 2007 at 37 episodes. A live-action Japanese film trilogy was first released in theaters in 2006, with the third and final film releasing in 2008. A new Japanese film, Death Note: Light Up the New World, will tell an original story set 10 years after the conclusion of the first trilogy. Hollywood has been attempting to make their own live-action Death Note film since 2007. Warner Bros. acquired film rights in 2009 and hired Shane Black to direct in 2011. However, the project languished in development hell at WB, who let their rights lapse. Netflix secured filming rights in April 2016 and quickly set the project into production.