Adam Wingard, director of ‘You’re Next’, ‘The Guest’ and the upcoming Cinemax series ‘Outcast’, is moving forward with his live action adaption of ‘Death Note’, penned by Jeremy Slater (Fantastic Four).
The film has now entered the casting phase. Nat Wolff has been cast as the male lead. Wolff will star opposite actress-singer Margaret Qually.
“The story follows a student who discovers a mysterious notebook that kills whomever’s name is written in it. When the student meets the notebook’s previous owner, a demon bent on ridding the world of anyone it deems evil or useless, he ends up tracked by an Interpol officer investigating the unexplained death of several criminals.”
