Netflix’s Death Note Unveils New Light Poster

Death Note is slated to make a live-action debut on Netflix later this fall, but fans are still noticeably split over the affair. The film’s trailer was met with mixed reception from anime fans earlier in the year, and the fandom has scrutinized how Death Note plans to treat its lead Light. And, now, fans can now check out a new look of Nat Wolff’s character in a brand-new Death Note poster.

Thanks to Nerdist, Netflix’s first character poster for Light has been released. The image, which can be seen in the gallery below, shows Wolff as he holds his titular Death Note. The black-and-white poster is covered in scribbles which may allude to Light’s constantly use of the notebook, and Wolff looks rather dour at he stares straight ahead.

This is not the first character poster Netflix has released recently for Death Note, and it is not the best either. Light looks vacant in this poster, and it has an uncharacteristically grungy feel. The character himself looks more put together than he is in the Death Note trailer, and fans do appreciate the clean-cut look; After all, the original Death Note series stresses Light looks like a role model despite his serial killer pastime, and the dichotomy presents an interesting challenge for the detective L when he tries to connect Light to his various murders.

As expected, fans are already scrutinizing the poster as they have done with all other anime adaptations. Hollywood has had a busy year on that particular front already. Earlier in the spring, Ghost in the Shell made its way into theaters under director Rupert Sanders, but the film failed to find footing with fans. Given Hollywood’s lackluster reputation with live-action anime, diehard fans are understandably wary of what Death Note has to offer. But, as in all things, they will only be able to pass their final judgements about the live-action adaptation once Netflix premieres the film in August.

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You can read up on Death Note below thanks to Viz Media’s Synopsis:

“Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects—and he’s bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But will Light succeed in his noble goal, or will the Death Note turn him into the very thing he fights against?”

What if you had the power to decide who lives and who dies? We suggest you obey the rules. Based on the famous Japanese manga written by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, Death Note follows a high school student who comes across a supernatural notebook, realizing it holds within it a great power; if the owner inscribes someone’s name into it while picturing their face, he or she will die. Intoxicated with his new godlike abilities, the young man begins to kill those he deems unworthy of life.

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Death Note will be available to stream on Netflix beginning August 25, 2017.