Death Note mangaka Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata viewed the film ahead of everyone, and they loved it enough that artist Obata even made this artwork of the Willem Dafoe Ryuk together with the Nat Wolff Light Turner (Yagami).
That doesn’t seem to be the case for Netflix’s Death Note though, because the creators seem to love it.
He then added that he hopes people overseas who haven’t read or watched Death Note yet also enjoy the film.
The movie premieres via Netflix on August 25, 2017, and will star Nat Wolff as Light Turner and Willem Dafoe as the voice of Ryuk.