A first look at the upcoming Netflix original movie.
The Guest and You're Next director Adam Wingard's Death Note debuts on Netflix August 25th.
Based on a cult Japanese Manga series, the film stars Nat Wolff as a teenager who comes into possession of a magical notebook that ends the life of anyone whose name is written in its pages. Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley and Lakeith Stanfield also star.
The official synopsis reads:
What if you had the power to decide who lives and who dies?
We suggest you obey the rules. Based on the famous Japanese manga written by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, Death Note follows a high school student who comes across a supernatural notebook, realizing it holds within it a great power; if the owner inscribes someone's name into it while picturing their face, he or she will die. Intoxicated with his new godlike abilities, the young man begins to kill those he deems unworthy of life.