Death Note started as a manga story about a popular teenager who mysteriously receives a powerful book.
He has cast Nat Wolff (Paper Towns, The Fault in Our Stars) as the main character, Light, who receives the book from a menacing demon Ryuk (played by Willem Dafoe).
If he writes someone’s name in the Death Note, they die.
And it’s that haunting creature we get a quick glimpse of in the last frames of the trailer.