Death Note

Shane Black to Direct Adaptation of Japanese Manga DEATH NOTE

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: January 13th, 2011 at 10:02 am

Shane Black (Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang) has signed on to helm an adaptation of the Japanese manga Death Note for Warner Bros.  Deadline reports that Black, who was once one of Hollywood’s highest-paid screenwriters (and rightly so), will oversee a script written by Anthony Bagarozzi and Charles Mondry.  Bagarozzi and Mondry are also writing the script for Black’s adaptation of Doc Savage for Sony.  Black says he’s uncertain about which project he’ll do next.

Hit the jump for what he had to say about Death Note along with a brief synopsis of the project.

Exclusive Interview: Zac Efron and Richard Linklater on ME AND ORSON WELLES; Plus Zac Addresses DEATH NOTE Rumors

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: November 22nd, 2009 at 7:36 pm

Opening this Wednesday, in limited release, is director Richard Linklater’s Me and Orson Welles.  Based in real theatrical history, the film is a coming-of-age story about a teenage actor (Zac Efron) who lucks into a role in Julius Caesar as it’s being re-imagined by a brilliant, impetuous young director named Orson Welles (Christian McKay) at his newly-founded Mercury Theater in NYC, 1937.  Claire Danes co-stars as Sonja Jones, the unapologetically ambitious assistant to Welles who Zac tries to go after.

While the film premiered at last year’s Toronto Film Festival, it took awhile for someone to purchase it for domestic distribution.  While a delay might be a sign of a problem, I thought Me and Orson Welles was great and definitely recommend checking it out.  So to help promote the film, I recently sat down with Zac Efron and Richard Linklater and they talked about why it took awhile for the film to get released, Orson Welles, making the film, and Zac addresses the Death Note manga rumors.  Check it out after the jump:

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