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Another Japanese manga gets the Hollywood whitewash! Actor Nat Wolff is reportedly in talks to star in Warner Brothers' live-action adaptation of, based on the popular manga series.Wolff, whose previous credits includeand, is in final negotiations to star in the supernatural thriller, adapted from the hit manga series by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata.In, a high school student named Light Yagami discovers a mysterious notebook that allows him to kill anyone simply by writing the victim's name. When Light meets the notebook's previous owner, a demon called Ryuk bent on ridding the world of anyone it deems evil or useless, he ends up tracked by Interpol and a world-famous detective investigating the unexplainable deaths of several criminals.So... Nat Wolff is going to be playing Light Yagami?has been previously adapted as a 37-episode animated series directed by Tetsuro Araki. It was also adapted into a Japanese live-action film in 2006, followed by the sequeland a 2008 spinoff film. In addition, a live-action drama series based onpremiered on Japanese television earlier this year.Warner Bros. acquired the rights toin 2009. The American adaption is set to be directed by Adam Wingard (), from a script by Jeremy Slater (). Roy Lee, Dan Lin, Jason Hoffs and Masi Oka are producing, with Doug Davison and Brian Witten executive producing.Production is set to begin next spring. Fanboys and fangirls, commence outrage.More here: Warners' Live-Action Death Note Film Casts Nat Wolff