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Netflix’s upcoming live-action Death Note series has a writer now.
According to Deadline, Halia Abdel-Meguid will be in charge of writing the script. She is a long-time fan of Death Note, can speak Japanese, and has lived in Tokyo for some time before.
Death Note tells the story of a bored and highly intelligent high schooler named Light Yagami who finds a notebook that can kill anyone whose name is written inside. The notebook is obviously called the Death Note and was owned by the shinigami Ryuk. Light begins to use the Death Note to kill criminals and decides that he wants to become the god of a new world he wants to forge.
Back in 2017, the Manga was adapted into a live-action film starring Nat Wolff as Light and Willem Dafoe as Ryuk. Several producers of the 2017 film are working on the live-action series, including Dan Lin and Roy Lee.
The Duffer Brothers’ production company, Upside Down, is producing the series.
Abdel-Meguid recently wrote The Devil in the White City and is already partnered with The Duffer Brothers for the upcoming adaptation of Stephen King’s The Talisman.
The 2017 live-action film did garner both positive and negative reviews, but the majority seem to be very much in the negative reception field, with a score of 4.5/10 on IMDb and a 37% on Rotten Tomatoes.
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