Gus Van Sant will be in charge of running the manga «Death Note»To the big screen in real action.
This will be the third time that the popular manga written by Tsugumi? Ba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata hit theaters as Shusuke Kanekō made two live-action films for the big screen, "Death Note: The Movie" and "Death Note: The Last Name", both in 2006. "Death Note" also has an animated series with two subsequent television films , all directed by Tetsuo araki.
Now he will be the two-time Oscar nominee for best direct, Gus Van Sant, who does a live-action version of American production.
In the beginning it was going to be Shane Black, who took charge of this project, but abandoned it so the film falls into the hands of the director of films such as "The Indomitable Will Haunting" or "My name is Harvey Milk."
"Death Note" tells the story of light Yagami, a boy who happens to find a very special notebook, which has the power to kill anyone who is written down in it. Light Yagami seeks to make a better world by killing all kinds of murderers and criminals without knowing that he is being followed by a mysterious detective named L.