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Mashable: Willem Dafoe to Play Ryuk in Netflix's Live-Action Death Note
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Media news website Mashable reported on Tuesday that actor Death Note film.
The film will Netflix in 2017.
The rest of the cast includes:
Keith Stanfield (Short Term 12, Straight Outta Compton) as L
Margaret Qualley (The Leftovers) as Mia Sutton
Paul Nakauchi (Star Wars: The Clone Wars) as Watari
Shea Whigham (Boardwalk Empire) as James Turner
Jeremy Slater (Fantastic Four) penned a recent draft of the script.
Nik Mavinkurve had been overseeing the project for Warner.
In Takeshi Obata's original 2003-2006 supernatural suspense manga, teenager Light Yagami finds a notebook with which he can put people to death by writing their names. He begins a self-anointed crusade against the criminals of the world, and a cat-and-mouse game begins with the authorities and one idiosyncratic genius detective.
In addition to the 2006 television anime adaptation and tie-in specials, Death Note also received a Japanese live-action film adaptation in 2006, with a sequel titled streamed the live-action television series.
Source: Mashable (Jeff Sneider) Comic Book Resources
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