Death Note is produced by Roy Lee (The Ring, The Departed), Dan Lin (The LEGO Movie, Sherlock Holmes), Jason Hoffs (Edge of Tomorrow), and Masi Oka (Heroes Reborn, Hawaii Five-O).
Miri Yoon (Behaving Badly), Jonathan Eirich (Hammerspace), John Powers Middleton (Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, The LEGO Movie), and Brendan Ferguson (Big Eyes, Reasonable Doubt) are executive producers.
Buried inside a story at The Hollywood Reporter focusing on Netflix’s intentions to create a movie hit to go along with its television programming was this little tidbit: the streaming company is developing a sequel to its 2017 horror-thriller Death Note.
Intoxicated with his new godlike abilities, the young man begins to kill those he deems unworthy of life.