[JAPAN] More info. on the next “Death Note” film - L change the WorlLd

In a recent article on Daily Yomiuri, writer Saori Kan wrote, “Leaving his underground investigation headquarters, the unflappable, seclusive detective takes the train, takes imperiled children under his wing and even makes a dash to jump onto a departing airplane during the last 23 days of his life in the Death Note spinoff, L change the WorLd.”"The big box-office hits of 2006, Death Note and Death Note: The Last Name, which raked in 8 billion yen at the box office, was attributed largely to the original manga’s inventive story about an unholy notebook whose owner can kill people by writing their names in it.”

“In Death Note, Kenichi Matsuyama gave a strong performance in the role of L, a super-smart private detective fighting a psychological war against a serial killer who uses the notebook to kill criminals in a misguided effort to cleanse the world. And now, there’s a spinoff, L change the WorLd.”

“The movie portrays the last 23 days of L’s life, which were not depicted in Death Note: the Last Name, and focuses on his very last job, preventing a bioterrorist plot to use a deadly virus cooked up by a virologist working with a terrorist group.”

“In Last Name, L determines his own destiny with the notebook by writing that he will peacefully die 23 days later–the Death Note’s maximum period for controlling people’s deaths–as the only measure to protect his life from the serial killer, who tries to find L’s real name to kill him with the notebook.”

“[In L change the WorLd] I wanted to portray L’s human side, which was not shown in the Death Note series,” director Hideo Nakata told The Daily Yomiuri.

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