In an interview with film news website Collider posted on Friday, Adam Wingard (The Guest, You're Next), the director of Netflix's live-action Death Note film, elaborated on the film. The director compared the film's tone to his own The Guest film, describing Death Note as "a return for me to go back to doing something kind of weird." Wingard also contrasted the film to his current Blair Witch horror sequel film, which opened in the United States on Friday.

When Collider asked him how the lack of a rating system on Netflix might affect the violence and gore in the film, Wingard replied by saying that "we can do whatever we want." He then labeled anime as adult-oriented, citing an anecdote of seeing a "Not for Kids" sticker on a copy of Akira at a Suncoast video store, and likened the experience of working on the Death Note film as working on a "live-action anime." Wingard also said he is committed to preserving the adult themes in the film, noting that the film has nudity, swearing, and "a ton of violence."

Wingard also mentioned director Jason Eisener ( Hobo With a Shotgun ) as a second-unit director for the film. Wingard said that the Death Note film has "basically like three good Jason Eisener short films in there and they're all very gory."

Wingard ended the interview by saying, "I think we ended up with a really, kind of nasty and crazy film."

The film will premiere via streaming on Netflix in 2017.

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Source: Collider (Chris Cabin)