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Netflix’s observe report with producing live-action anime is combined, at finest. The streamer’s “One Piece” sequence has already been renewed, however the live-action “Cowboy Bebop” was a swiftly-canceled mess.
Their most notorious undertaking, nonetheless, might be “Dying Word.” This story, first advised by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata in a mega-popular manga, focuses on the Japanese teenager Mild Yagami. Sooner or later, a pocket book falls from the sky into Mild’s lap. Dropped by a Shinigami (a Japanese loss of life god) named Ryuk, the “loss of life be aware” will kill anybody whose identify is written on its pages. Mild decides to purge the world of evil by utilizing the Dying Word to kill high-profile criminals, turning into a serial killer himself within the course of. Dubbed “Kira” (a Japanese pronunciation of “Killer”), he positive aspects allies (deludedly loyal pop idol Misa Amane) and adversaries (eccentric grasp detective L).
This 2017 movie, directed by Adam Wingard, transposed this story to Seattle. This Americanization resulted in Mild Turner (Nat Wolff) and “Mia Sutton” (Margaret Qualley). L (LaKeith Stanfield) and Ryuk (Willem Dafoe) come by means of nearer to their authentic incarnations. However because of the whitewashing and lots of different issues, the evaluations for “Dying Word” weren’t variety. As for followers? They hated it a lot that Wingard deleted his Twitter account after harassment from some.
Nonetheless, there was speak about a Sequel even earlier than launch; Wingard pitched “Dying Word” to Netflix as a “two-film sequence, possibly three.” The primary movie was apparently a “sizable success,” per Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos — although with out Netflix releasing viewership numbers, we won’t know how sizable — and phrase a few sequel first got here in August 2018. What’s occurred since?
Improvement caught within the Shinigami Realm
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Greg Russo was the introduced author of Netflix’s “Dying Word” sequel, taking up from the primary movie’s credited writers (Jeremy Slater and brothers Charley & Vlas Parlapanides). In 2020, Russo advised his Twitter followers that writing the sequel was “consuming a big a part of [his] life proper now.”
It is consuming a big a part of my life proper now. I am hellbent on giving DN followers one thing new, thrilling and sudden. Keep tuned. #DeathNote #Netflix https://t.co/Y3DDSjIu3Z
— Greg Russo (@WriterRusso) September 30, 2020
Whereas on the press tour for 2021’s “Mortal Kombat” (which he co-wrote), Russo advised We Acquired This Coated:
“I am an enormous fan of the unique supply materials and I feel it is one of many biggest mangas ever written. And so for me, I did not play any function in ‘Dying Word,’ the primary movie that Netflix did, however I got here in with sort of a standpoint with what I wished to do in a sequel. And a part of that’s I wished to return to the supply materials. I wished to return to what made the unique stuff so nice, and so we’re doing one thing actually neat with it. Hopefully, there will probably be extra data on it quickly.”
No extra data did come, except for producer Masi Oka promising in 2021 that they had been “listening to the followers” with the sequel’s course.
In July 2022, it was confirmed that the Duffer Brothers (“Stranger Issues”) can be growing a live-action “Dying Word” TV sequence for Netflix. Author Halia Abdel-Meguid is on board as effectively. Little extra in regards to the undertaking has been revealed, however it appears to have taken the place of Russo’s movie sequel. Whereas Netflix’s curiosity in “Dying Word” is alive and effectively, growing two variations of the story concurrently can be overkill.
