Warner Bros. has acquired rights to turn the Japanese manga series Death Note into a live-action film.
The studio has hired screenwriters Charley and Vlas Parlapanides to adapt.
The story follows a college student who accidentally finds a misplaced book called a “death note,” which infuses him with the power to kill merely by writing anyone’s name on the page while picturing the person in his mind.
The 13-volume manga is a bestseller in Japan. The film will be drawn from the first three installments, written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata.
Warner Bros. Pictures Japan has made three Japanese-language Death Note films already. The new film will be on the manga and have nothing do to with the previous movies.
The screenwriters wrote War of the Gods for Relativity Media and Live Bet for Universal.
source: Variety
