Director Shane Black confirmed at his Long Beach Comic Con panel on Saturday that Warner Brothers‘ planned live-action film adaptation of Death Note is still in the works. However, Black added that the project was in jeopardy because the studio initially wanted to drop “the demon [Ryuk]. [They] don’t want the kid to be evil…. They just kept qualifying it until it ceased to exist.”
Black said that “the creation of a villain, the downward spiral” of the main character Light has been restored in the script, and added that this is what the film should be about.
Source: Comic Book Resources via City on Fire
