While Death Note is not the 34-year-old director's first time dipping his toes into potential franchise fodder - he also helmed last year's Blair Witch reboot - it did present a range of new storytelling and filmmaking challenges for him. It's overly complicated and kinda playing with that." "Because you do have to acknowledge the almost ridiculousness of it without being condescending. "I really liked that moment," he says during a recent press stop in New York.
It certainly describes how Wingard, a veteran of genre-bending indie horror fare like You're Next and The Guest, felt while keeping track of so many narrative threads. "There's so many fucking rules," he says.Īccording to director Adam Wingard, the line was improvised by Nat Wolff, the actor who plays Light, but it might also reflect how you feel during the movie's dizzying final stretch. Only then will she "burn" his page and spare him, but she can only do that once according to Ryuk, the spiky god of death voiced by Willem Dafoe who is tasked with explaining all the Death Note's dense mythology. Mia tells him she'll save his life if he passes the Death Note onto her. Wearing a tophat and swaying to Berlin's '80s synth ballad "Take My Breath Away" at a high school dance, he learns that his girlfriend Mia (Margaret Qualley) has sentenced him to death with the titular notebook, a supernatural tome which gives its owner the power to kill simply by scribbling a name in its pages.
There's a point towards the end of Death Note, Netflix's adaptation of the beloved manga and anime series of the same name, where the film's main character, Light Turner, gets fed up.
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