The official website of Death Note Light up the NEW world, this year’s live-action Death Note sequel film, revealed on Thursday that Ken’ichi Matsuyama will reprise his role from the Death Note films as the legendary detective L. It has been eight years since he last played the role in 2008’s L change the WorLd.
The film is a “forbidden sequel” to the two earlier live-action Death Note films, 2006’s Death Note and Death Note: The Last Name.
New charismatic figures, who “inherited the DNA” of Light (previously played by Tatsuya Fujiwara) and the detective L (Ken’ichi Matsuyama), emerge.
A three-episode prequel mini-series titled Death Note NEW GENERATION premiered on Hulu on September 16.