Death Note (2017 film)

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Death Note

Promotional poster

Directed by Adam Wingard

• Roy Lee
Produced by
• Dan Lin
• Masi Oka
• Jason Hoffs
• Ted Sarandos

Screenplay by • Charles Parlapanides

• Vlas Parlapanides
• Jeremy Slater

Based on Death Note

by

• Tsugumi Ohba
 • Takeshi Obata

Starring • Nat Wolff

• Lakeith Stanfield
• Margaret Qualley
• Shea Whigham
• Paul Nakauchi
• Jason Liles
• Willem Dafoe

Music by • Atticus Ross

• Leopold Ross

Cinematography David Tattersall

Edited by Louis Cioffi

Production • LP Entertainment
companies
• Vertigo Entertainment
• Lin Pictures

Distributed by • Netflix

Release date • August 24, 2017 (FrightFest)

• August 25, 2017 (Netflix)

Running time 100 minutes

Country United States

Language English

Budget $40 million[1]

Death Note is a 2017 American supernatural thriller film loosely adapted from the
Japanese manga of the same name created by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. The
film is directed by Adam Wingard and written by Charles & Vlas Parlapanides,
and Jeremy Slater. The film stars Nat Wolff, Lakeith Stanfield, Margaret Qualley, Shea
Whigham, Paul Nakauchi, Jason Liles and Willem Dafoe, and follows the story of an
American high school student named Light Turner, who finds a mysterious supernatural
notebook known as the "Death Note", which can kill anyone whose name is written in its
pages.
The film was screened at FrightFest in London, and was then released on Netflix on
August 25, 2017, and received mixed to negative reviews. A sequel is currently in the
works, with Greg Russo attached to write the screenplay.