So… is Ryuk a fan of Willem Dafoe playing him?
Reaction videos are all the rage on YouTube right now, and last week’s trailer for upcoming Netflix film Death Note has spawned a whole lot of them. But this reaction video for director Adam Wingard’s latest, well, it’s going to be impossible to top.
YouTuber Dr. Machakil didn’t film himself watching the trailer. Rather, he used footage from the anime series to show us what Ryuk and Light Yagami think of it.
“I’m a huge fan of the manga and Anime,” he notes in the fun video’s description. “Did not really expect the movie to go this way so let’s wait and see what Netflix will bring to the table this August.”
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.
The movie stars Nat Wolff (Paper Towns, The Fault in Our Stars) as Light Turner; Margaret Qualley (The Nice Guys, The Leftovers) as Mia Sutton; Keith Stanfield (Straight Outta Compton, Dope, Short Term 12) as “L”; Paul Nakauchi (Alpha and Omega) as Watari; and Shea Whigham(“Agent Carter”, “Boardwalk Empire”) as James Turner.
Death Note is produced by Roy Lee (The Ring, The Grudge, Blair Witch, The Departed), Dan Lin (The Lego Movie, Sherlock Holmes), Jason Hoffs (Edge of Tomorrow), and Masi Oka (“Heroes Reborn”, “Hawaii-Five-0”).
The film will begin streaming on Netflix August 25.
