Halia Abdel-Meguid hired to write Death Note live action

Netflix's Death Note series live-action will be written and produced by Halia Abdel-Meguid. The Japanese manga and anime show is popular among the fans of the genre and the live-action adaptation has been among the most-awaited ones.

Halia Abdel-Meguid is a Los Angeles-based screenwriter known for providing solo vocals for the BBC sci-fi show Doctor Who and creating original music for the NBC series Hannibal. She has been a longtime fan of the Death Note anime and manga written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata, reported Deadline. She used to live in Tokyo and speaks Japanese.

Duffer Brothers confirmed the live adaptation in July but there is no release window as of now. Shows based on video games and anime are controversial as they often deviate from the source material. The 2017 live-action movie Death Note was criticised for compressing the first half of the 37-episode anime into 100 minutes. Director Adam Wingard was slammed for changing character personalities and plot beats to cater to an American audience. Death Note being a critically acclaimed anime, the movie was rejected by critics and fans alike. A sequel was announced in 2018 but there were no updates on it after.

The Duffer Brothers are known for creating Stranger Things, one of the most successful shows on Netflix.

Death Note is about Light Yagami, a brilliant teen who finds a notebook from the God of Death, Shinigami. If you write a person's name on it while picturing their face, it will result in their death either by heart attack or a specified means. Yagami starts using the book and eventually becomes an ego-centric playing judge, jury, and executioner. He attempts to use the Death Note to carry out a worldwide massacre of individuals whom he deems immoral and to create a crime-free society.