Zac Efron practically confirmed for Light in Death Note movie.

Silliness aside, if they don't make Zac Efron act like a bored, cold calcuating man with a god complex this will just drive people away from the actual awesomeness that is Death Note. I'm only on chapter 49 and I can't stop reading it.

Oh man, I just love me some TVTropes logo. (I guess hotlinking isn't allowed. I'll re-host that for you)

EDIT: It got fixed.

And the anime version:


As a response to that, I'll quote myself on this in a prior post:

The character of Luke misses the marks that Light brought in the original: the element of him being a bored genius is hardly done, and he's now a consummate nice guy who gets corrupted by "TEH MAGIKUL EVUL POWAH" of the Death Note and he has a dead mother that pretty much equals Uncle Ben in the Spiderman movies.

In fact, the opening scene of the movie is him saving an old lady from getting ran over by a train and him becoming a thero.

The book apparently makes him angry and insane as part of its powers. lolwut?

The genius element isn't played out right. He goes to Fordham College in New York in this movie. In the original source material, he goes to Tokyo University. That's rated the number one college in Asia, and the number three in the entire WORLD in 2009 according to the Global University Ranking. I would at least expect that they at least try to Americanize it a little better by making him go to an Ivy League College that the average person can identify as a school that only geniuses go to, persay Princeton or Harvard. He acts somewhat smart, at least; he runs around quoting Churchill and citing historical examples like the Coventry Dilemma!

I think thats worse than i though...

It's a live action adaptation, I wasn't expecting it to be good. In fact, I forgot all about this, because I thought it was just a rumor at first and never read up any more on it because it's obviously not interesting to me.

I wouldn't watch it anyway, so it doesn't matter much to me. Regardless of who's playing the role, the adaptation will most likely be garbage. So they could have the best actor in the freaking world play him, but if the story is crap it doesn't matter.

I don't even freaking know who Zac Efron is.

So this or the DBZ movie? Which would be worse?

Funny thing is, it wasn't an adaptation of DBZ. It was supposed to be Dragonball. I just find it to be worth even more of a laugh when I think about that.

It's a live action adaptation, I wasn't expecting it to be good. In fact, I forgot all about this, because I thought it was just a rumor at first and never read up any more on it because it's obviously not interesting to me.

I wouldn't watch it anyway, so it doesn't matter much to me. Regardless of who's playing the role, the adaptation will most likely be garbage. So they could have the best actor in the freaking world play him, but if the story is crap it doesn't matter.

I don't even freaking know who Zac Efron is.



Funny thing is, it wasn't an adaptation of DBZ. It was supposed to be Dragonball. I just find it to be worth even more of a laugh when I think about that.

I raged so bad when I saw Master Roshi.

I don't even freaking know who Zac Efron is.

Male protagonist in high school musical.

I don't even freaking know who Zac Efron is.

Consider the exact opposite of the people you would expect death note to be aimed at. That is his target audience. If you want a death note film, seriously, this is going to be terrible, do yourself a favour and watch the existing films. They are by no means perfect adaptions, but they do the series justice at the very least, in particular the guy who portrayed L played the character excellently.

Consider the exact opposite of the people you would expect death note to be aimed at. That is his target audience. If you want a death note film, seriously, this is going to be terrible, do yourself a favour and watch the existing films. They are by no means perfect adaptions, but they do the series justice at the very least, in particular the guy who portrayed L played the character excellently.

I actually saw those, but only because there was that one move "L - Change the world" that was a Death Note spinoff. I read that in order to understand it you'd have to watch the previous adaptations, since it takes place after those.

Aside from that, I rarely ever pick up live action adaptions of anything unless I hear it's pretty good. Obviously I'm not expecting it to be a 100% adaptation, since that's impossible to do. But I hate when a film has almost nothing to do with the source material, but just vaguely resembles the original plot and uses the same character names.

Yes, Dragonball, I'm looking at you. It was basically a kung-fu movie that they thought "man, this seems pretty crappy. How can we make this sell better? Oh, I know! Get a popular title for it!"

So they got the license to make it. They change up the storyline they previously created to fit the context more and slap on character names. There you go, DB movie!

That might as well be what happened.

Yes, Dragonball, I'm looking at you. It was basically a kung-fu movie that they thought "man, this seems pretty crappy. How can we make this sell better? Oh, I know! Get a popular title for it!"

So they got the license to make it. They change up the storyline they previously created to fit the context more and slap on character names. There you go, DB movie!

That might as well be what happened.

I can't believe that crap warranted a sequel as well and even THOUGHT it could become a successful movie franchise by adding stupid sequel baiting with the crap about Piccolo being healed by a woman he spared from killing after the awesome Ayumi Hamasaki song played in the credits. From what I understand, the second one is on it's way. That one is based on the first episodes/chapters of DBZ with the whole Raditz storyline. Maybe then it could see the justified light of accuracy.... oh wait, this isn't Dragonball.

Goku was changed to generic high school student #9001; Goku learns the so-called Kamehameha airbending technique because Chichi goads him on with either a kiss or some innuendo (I don't recall this movie very well). Since when would Goku do that? Oh right, never.

Jesus Christ, why is Chi-Chi given a complex about her name? What does her name have to do with this conversation anyways?

Some other character changes:
-Yamcha is a surfer bum who digs holes in the desert to scam nubz into paying him to free them out from these traps.
-Roshi. Everything physically about him is outright off. They tried to work in him being perverted, but it's just a light reference of him having magazines and that's it. Chow Yun-Fat as Roshi struck me as a tacky souveneir salesman in his acting.

The dialogue is outright horrible; here's my favorite example:
Chi-Chi: Did you do that?
Goku: Uh yeah. It was something my Grandpa taught me.
Chi-Chi: Ki?
Goku: (Shocked) You know about ki?
Chi-Chi: Just because my name is Chi-Chi doesn’t mean I’m an idiot.


Too lazy to account everything bad about it right now, so I'll leave it at this.

Actually, I think that if anything, Death Note could probably fare a lot better as an adaption. Reason being because of how many story arcs Dragonball had, and which ones they wanted to nitpick from to have somewhat of a conclusive end for a single ending; which made it hard to figure out how to treat the source material. Dragonball's obviously a little more far-fetched: anthropomorphic characters, bizarre hair colors and hair styles, and so forth. Death Note doesn't run into these problems as much.

No Misa and No Ryuk.... Fail. I'm disliking this movie more and more.

I raged so bad when I saw Master Roshi.

Hey, hey, hey! Chow Yun-Fat is a great actor! ..... They just de-awesome'ed the guy when they put him in a role like that.... ;_; POOR MASTER ROSHI... POOR CHOW YUN-FAT!