Following Iron Man 3, director Shane Black seemed keen on making a live-action Death Note film for the West. However, it appears that will not come to pass as Warner Bros. has replaced Black with Adam Wingard.
Created as a manga, writer Tsugumi Ohba and illustraor by Takeshi Obata have witnessed their 2003 creation spawn a spinoff manga, anime, anime film and Japanese live-action film. The story centers around a bright Japanese high school student who randomly discovers a notebook that lets him kill anyone just by writing their name in it.
Wingard is expected to shoot a horror movie for Lionsgate this Summer before tackling Death Note.
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