Willem Dafoe has come aboard to voice Ryuk the Shinigami in this adaptation of Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata’s iconic manga.
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Now that production has begun on Netflix’s new thriller Death Note, one of the most important voice roles in this adaptation has been cast.
In the original manga, Ryuk the Shinigami is the creature that actually created this Death Note book, and left it on Earth to see what would happen when someone discovers its powers.