It has been almost twelve years since the first chapter of Death Note was released by Shueisha, but the series is still as popular today as when it was first released, if not more so.

It was early in the month when Nat Wolff was reported to be part of the upcoming American adaptation of Death Note. Death Note is currently in development with Warner Bros. Pictures and Adam Wingard will be directing the film.

Death Note is still in the casting stage of the film, and yet already, the film is being accused of whitewashing the movie. Recently, Edward Zo took to YouTube to air out his disgust at what was happening claiming that he was not allowed to audition for the upcoming Death Note because he was Asian.

Warner Bros still has not released a statement regarding Zo’s video.

In other Death Note stories, apparently, not only Hollywood is making a new Death Note movie. It is said that Warner Japan and Nippon TV are working on ‘Death Note 2016’, a sequel to the 2006 Death Note film. Instead of adapting the storyline of the manga where the story centered on Light and L, according to Anime News Network, the upcoming Death Note 2016 is set in the present day where global cyber-terrorism is plaguing an advanced information society. Although Light and L will not be in the upcoming Death Note 2016, two new characters who have inherited the DNA of the two original protagonist and antagonist will be introduced. These two will be up against each other in a battle of wits to acquire the only six Death Notes on Earth. As the title claims, Death Note 2016 will be released next year.

In the manga, Death Note tells the story of an extremely intellectually gifted high school student Light Yagami who found a notebook that claims to be able to kill anyone whose name is written on the book.