The film revolves around Luke Murray, a motherless college student and consummate "good guy." He is motivated not by boredom and self-righteous disgust at the people around him, but because his mother was gunned down in a robbery years before.
Ryuk is not a character in the film, although it's made very clear that the use of the Death Note takes a sinister toll on Luke-- and here is my biggest complaint: it also posits that the Death Note itself is responsible for driving Luke's rage. This is the biggest change and the only one I really detest, and it's because it completely changes the nature of the original character of Light Yagami. Light was a bored, super-intelligent young man who felt that the people around him were all morons, like rats next to his godliness. It was this ego that drove him to feel that he could rule the world, and he uses the Death Note in a manner completely differently than anyone else who ever acquired one-- which is a very, very important distinction, I feel.
That said, there is a fair amount of faithfulness in terms of the plot's actual main events, down to some very specific details-- the memory-erasing trick, the bus episode, even the infamous bag-of-chips scene. And of course both Watari and L appear-- but virtually no description of L is given, so it's unclear how similar he will be to his original self. Based on his dialogue it could go either way...
...But the ending is very, very different. Rather than ever getting caught by anyone, Luke gives up the Death Note in order to arrange a final tying up of loose ends to prove his innocence to L and his father, and the plan requires him to not know about the book. He leaves himself a video message showing him how to get the book back-- but having come to his senses without it, he chooses not to pick it back up again.
And he gets back to his regular life.
http://www.animevice.com/news/rumor-...t-leaked/2653/
Using my fantastic skills, I managed to procure the ENTIRE script, which I will now retype the beginning of by hand.
Ahem.
EXT QUEENS NYC
A working class neighborhood in the heart of the Far Rockaway.
Broken down stoops adorn each home while CAR ALARMS and SHOUTING can be heard in the distance as the hard SQUABBLE LOCALS go about their morning routine
Start story
INT BEDROOM, ROW HOUSE
LUKE MURRAY, 21, lies in bed, dead to the world, even as the late morning sun fights its way in. Suddenly his SIDEKICK (Typists Note: LOL PRODUCT PLACEMENT) vibrates to life.
He slowly starts to stir as the sidekick works it's way off the desk and crashes onto the floor...
Alright, let's skip ahead about 30 minutes!
INT LUKE'S ROOM
Luke rights in the DEATH NOTE as...
EXT COURTHOUSE
...REPORTERS pepper Patterson with questions
...etc etc etc
Total major list of changes:
-Broadly follows the plot of the first Death Note live action film except the end is tied up.
-Light Yagami is now Luke Murray.
-No Misa (or any other secondary Kiras).
-No Death Gods.
-No mind games between LUKE and L.
-The Death Note has EVIL JAPANESE POWERS which affects the mind of the user.
-The victims of the Death Note die of a special kind of heart attack that the coroner can recognize as specific only to the Death Note.
-No uses of the phrase "I'LL BE GOD OF THE NEW WORLD" or "JUST AS PLANNED".
-L is not characterized at all.
-Ends because Light gives up.
I would post the entire script so you can see just how shit the actual writing really is, but I'm afraid of legal repercussions.
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9th October 2009
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