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Godzilla vs. Kong’s tone will be similar to Kong: Skull Island, according to Jordan Vogt-Roberts

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This is either going to be the best, or worst news you hear all day depending on where you stand with Kong: Skull Island. There seems to be two trains of thought here: 1) Kong: Skull Island is a refreshing change of course from the darker Godzilla reboot, or 2) the latest Kong sacrificed the […]

Death Note director nearly helmed the new Halloween movie

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Adam Wingard, the director of Death Note, nearly directed the upcoming Halloween reboot.Netflix’s adaptation of Death Note, the famed Japanese anime and manga, has recently hit the streaming service, opening up a whole new audience to the dark fantasy tale.The director of the movie, which stars Willem Dafoe, has recently revealed that he nearly took […]

Horror Channel FrightFest Review – Death Note (2017)

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Death Note, 2017Directed by Adam Wingard Starring Nat Wolff, Lakeith Stanfield, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Shea WhighamSYNOPSIS:Light Turner, a bright student, stumbles across a mystical notebook that has the power to kill any person whose name he writes in it. Light decides to launch a secret crusade to rid the streets of criminals. Soon, the student-turned-vigilante […]

Godzilla vs. Kong will be “a massive monster brawl” (and will have a clear winner)

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2014’s Godzilla and this year’s Kong: Skull Island had drastically different tones. Kong, in many ways, felt like an answer to the big criticism of the Godzilla reboot; mainly, that it was too slow, over-serious, and didn’t show enough of the beast himself. Kong: Skull Island ended up being more action-packed, and a bit lighter in […]

Godzilla vs. Kong director discusses size difference between the two monsters

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Director Adam Wingard was at Comic-Con this past weekend to promote the release of his new movie Death Note, and IGN managed to get a brief update from the filmmaker as to his next project – the MonsterVerse crossover Godzilla vs. Kong.“It’s been a pleasure already in the first stages of it, having an excuse […]

New images from Netflix’s Death Note movie

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With Death Note set to arrive on Netflix next month, the streaming service has released five new images from director Adam Wingard’s upcoming manga adaptation which you can check out below…SEE ALSO: Adam Wingard on adapting Death Note for U.S. audiencesSEE ALSO: New trailer and featurette for the live-action Death Note movieWe suggest you obey the […]

Adam Wingard on adapting Death Note for U.S. audiences

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Unlike this year’s Ghost in the Shell – which retained the Japanese setting of its source material, leading to whitewashing criticisms – director Adam Wingard’s has relocated the action of his upcoming manga adaptation Death Note to the United States, and speaking to IGN, the filmmaker has discussed how that forced him to make adjustments to the […]

Death Note director Adam Wingard defends his film being set in the U.S.

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The director of Death Note has come to his film’s defence for moving the story to America. The classic manga/anime is being adapted as a Netflix film starring Nat Wolff and Willem Dafoe and directed by Adam Wingard. The story is originally set in Japan but for the live action movie version, events have been moved […]

Godzilla vs. Kong lands Death Note director Adam Wingard

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It looks like Death Note director Adam Wingard is officially directing Godzilla vs. Kong!Announced today, this could be Legendary Pictures way of finding the horror in two enormous monsters on the loose, and looking for blood. After all, it would be reasonable to assume that a huge fight involving these two beasts would not only be […]