Keith Stanfield Cast In Netflix's Death Note
Adam Wingard’s Netflix adaptation of the popular manga Death Note has added actor Keith [...]
Adam Wingard's Netflix adaptation of the popular manga Death Note has added actor Keith Stanfield, Variety reports.
The actor, who played Snoop in Straight Outta Compton and will appear in Snowden later this year, will appear opposite Margaret Qualley and Nat Wolff in the movie.
Per Variety, "Wolff plays a student who discovers a supernatural notebook that allows him to kill anyone simply by writing the victim's name. A cat-and-mouse game ensues when he's tracked by a reclusive police officer."
In the manga, created by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, 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?
Death Note was first serialized in Shueisha's manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from December 2003 to May 2006. The 108 chapters were collected and published into 12 tankōbon volumes between May 2004 and October 2006.
Jeremy Slater, who wrote the recent Fantastic Four reboot and the upcoming Exorcist TV series, handled the screenplay for Death Note. Wingard will direct from Slater's script. This will be the fourth adaptation -- there was an anime, plus a live-action adaptation in Japan that spawned a sequel.
Roy Lee, Dan Lin, Jason Hoffs and Masi Oka are producing the movie. Doug Davison and Brian Witten are executive producing.
