My Death Note Cast for the American Remake of Death Note
by AbygailRiver | created - 06 Aug 2012 | updated - 06 Aug 2012 | PublicPersonally, I’m quite happy they’re remaking Death Note because, even though the Japanese movies were good; they weren’t that faithful to the manga series or the anime. So, I see this as a chance to make a faithful adaption to the series…. PS: Please be aware that most of the actors in my cast are American, because I personally think “why would they cast Japanese people in a remake when there’s already a Japanese movie?” I personally see it as a waste of time and money to do it that way so that’s why I cast mostly American actors/American actresses but there are a few exceptions (Raye Pebender and Naomi Misora since he’s half Japanese and I want Naomi to be Japanese too but I’ll explain that when I get down to her) So without further ado, here’s my dream cast…
1. Josh Hutcherson
Actor | The Hunger Games
Joshua Ryan Hutcherson was born on October 12, 1992 in Union, Kentucky to Michelle Fightmaster, who worked for Delta Air Lines, and Chris Hutcherson, an EPA analyst. He has one younger brother, Connor Hutcherson. From the age of four, Josh knew that he wanted to be an actor. In order to pursue his ...
JOSH HUTCHERSON AS LIGHT YAGAMI
Hutcherson has the right acting skills to portray Light’s charm but psycho path personality, see The Hunger Games for his charm as Peeta Mellark, which he did flawlessly well and he can do psycho path seeing his performance as the maniac Steve in The Vampire’s Asstaint. He may not look exactly like Light but with some hair dye and contacts that can easily be fix, plus he is very good looking, so it would be easy to understand why so many girls flock to him.
((I know a lot of people want Zac Efron, and I do like Zac (he's awesome in Hairspray, 17 Again and HSM) but at 24 he's way to old to play Light; Sorry Zac!)
2. Ezra Miller
Actor | The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Ezra Matthew Miller was born in Wyckoff, New Jersey, to Marta (Koch), a modern dancer, and Robert S. Miller, who has worked at Workman Publishing and as former senior V.P. for Hyperion Books. Ezra has two older sisters and is of Ashkenazi Jewish (father) and German-Dutch (mother) ancestry. Ezra has...
EZRA MILLER AS L LAWILET
I’m sorry but Ezra is the perfect person to portray L in the remake (and no you can’t argue) he has the right likeable quirks to portray L and he’s known for portraying oddish characters so that can easily be transfer into L. Though Josh and he are the same age (which I couldn’t believe at first) he has an ageless looking face like L which is perfect.
PS: His IMDb picture is old, if you saw recent pictures of him you can see him as L better.)
3. Evanna Lynch
Actress | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Evanna Patricia Lynch is an Irish actress. Born in the town of Termonfeckin in Ireland, she is one of four children to Donal and Marguerite Lynch. Her acting career began in 2007 when she competed in an open audition against nearly 15,000 girls, and won the coveted role of Luna Lovegood in the "...
EVANNA LYNCH AS MISA ANAME
She has the charm and likability of Misa and coming off her performance as Luna in Harry Potter she can totally play the cute yet a little creepy side well.
4. Asa Butterfield
Actor | Hugo
Asa Butterfield was born in Islington, London, England, to Jacqueline Farr and Sam Butterfield. He began acting at the age of 8, after a talent spotting casting director saw him at his local after school drama club, The Young Actors Theatre in Islington. Following on from a couple of small roles in...
ASA BUTTERFIELD AS NEAR/NATE RIVER
Asa has the maturity to play Near which is important because the actor will have to be convincible ordering CIA and FBI agents around and the skills to play creepy, stonic persona of Near.
5. Alexander Ludwig
Actor | Vikings
After starring in the hugely successful blockbuster The Hunger Games (2012) (for which he received two awards), Alexander has gone on to work in films such as Lone Survivor (2013), The Final Girls (2015), and Bad Boys for Life (2020), and received critical acclaim for his performance as Bjorn ...
ALEXANDER LUDWIG AS MELLO/MIHEAL KEEHL
He can portray Mello's emotional and wild persona but can be imitating (especially to a certain Shinigami name Sidoh....)
6. Ron Perlman
Actor | Hand of God
Ron Perlman is a classically-trained actor who has appeared in countless stage plays, feature films and television productions.
Ronald N. Perlman was born April 13, 1950 in Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York. His mother, Dorothy (Rosen), is retired from the City Clerk's Office. His father, ...
Ron Perlman as the voice of Ryuk
7. Helena Bonham Carter
Actress | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Helena Bonham Carter is an actress of great versatility, one of the UK's finest and most successful.
Bonham Carter was born May 26, 1966 in Golders Green, London, England, the youngest of three children of Elena (née Propper de Callejón), a psychotherapist, and Raymond Bonham Carter, a merchant ...
Helen Bonham Carter as the voice of Rem
8. Gary Oldman
Actor | The Dark Knight
Gary Oldman is a talented English movie star and character actor, renowned for his expressive acting style. One of the most celebrated thespians of his generation, with a diverse career encompassing theatre, film and television, he is known for his roles as Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy (1986), ...
Gary Oldman as Soichiro Yagami
9. Jackson Rathbone
Actor | Twilight
Internationally recognized for his breakout role as Jasper Hale in The Twilight Saga (2008-2012) Jackson Rathbone was born to American parents living in the Republic of Singapore. Growing up internationally, Jackson spent his adolescent years living in Tananger, Norway and Midland, Texas. After ...
Jackson Rathbone as Touta Mastuda
10. Patrick Dempsey
Actor | Grey's Anatomy
Patrick will next be seen in Eli Roth's new feature film THANKSGIVING as well as Michael Mann's new film, FERRARI, in which he stars opposite Adam Driver and Penélope Cruz. He was just seen starring in the Disney+ feature film and sequel to ENCHANTED, DISENCHANTED, opposite Amy Adams and most ...
Patrick Dempsey as Shuichi Aizawa
11. Gerard Butler
Actor | 300
Gerard James Butler was born in Paisley, Scotland, to Margaret and Edward Butler, a bookmaker. His family is of Irish origin. Gerard spent some of his very early childhood in Montreal, Quebec, but was mostly raised, along with his older brother and sister, in his hometown of Paisley. His parents ...
Gerard Butler as Kanzo Mogi
12. Greg Kinnear
Actor | As Good as It Gets
Greg Kinnear was born on June 17, 1963, in Logansport, Indiana, USA to Edward Kinnear, a career diplomat with the US State Department, and Suzanne (nee Buck) Kinnear, a homemaker. He has two brothers -- James, vice president-investments at Wachovia Securities in Arizona who was born in 1957, and ...
Greg Kinnear as Hideki Ide
13. Ian McKellen
Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Widely regarded as one of greatest stage and screen actors both in his native Great Britain and internationally, twice nominated for the Oscar and recipient of every major theatrical award in the UK and US, Ian Murray McKellen was born on May 25, 1939 in Burnley, Lancashire, England, to Margery ...
Ian McKellen as Watari/Qullish Wammy
Here's a link to a picture where he looks almost exactly like Watari
http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&sa=X&biw=1140&bih=490&tbm=isch&tbnid=et9K7t14RECoCM:&imgrefurl=http://www.musicrooms.net/movies/33647-ian-mckellen-and-judi-dench-in-zombie-comedy.html&docid=Hq2K3ux8pQ3cAM&imgurl=http://www.musicrooms.net/files/celebs/ian_mckellen_386990183.jpg&w=318&h=318&ei=ifMfUM2sKMuLrQHegIGADg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=706&vpy=16&dur=412&hovh=225&hovw=225&tx=145&ty=148&sig=102339129788705816410&page=3&tbnh=134&tbnw=134&start=33&ndsp=16&ved=1t:429,r:14,s:33,i:238
(It's kinda creepy...)
14. James McAvoy
Actor | Filth
McAvoy was born on 21 April 1979 in Glasgow, Scotland, to James, a bus driver, and Elizabeth (née Johnstone), a nurse. He was raised on a housing estate in Drumchapel, Glasgow by his maternal grandparents (James, a butcher, and Mary), after his parents divorced when James was 11. He went to St ...
James McAvory as Teru Mimaki
15. Kaya Scodelario
Actress | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Kaya Rose Scodelario was born in Haywards Heath, Sussex, England, to Katia (Scodelario) and Roger Humphrey. Her father was English and her mother is Brazilian, of Italian and Portuguese descent. Her surname comes from her mother's Italian grandfather. Thanks to her mother, Kaya grew up fluent in ...
Kaya Scodelario as Kiyomi Takada
16. Josh Holloway
Actor | Lost
Josh Holloway was born on July 20, 1969 in San Jose, California, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Lost (2004), Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011) and Sabotage (2014). He has been married to Yessica Kumala since October 1, 2004. They have two children.
Josh Holloway as Aiber
17. Sarah Michelle Gellar
Actress | Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Emmy Award-winning Sarah Michelle Gellar was born on April 14, 1977 in New York City, the daughter of Rosellen (Greenfield), who taught at a nursery school, and Arthur Gellar, who worked in the garment industry. She is of Russian Jewish and Hungarian Jewish descent.
Eating in a local restaurant, ...
Sarah Michelle Gellar as Wedy
ONE WORD - BUFFY!
18. Godfrey Gao
Actor | The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
Godfrey Gao was born on September 22, 1984 in Taiwan. He was an actor, known for The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013), The Jade Pendant (2017) and Toy Story 3 (2010). He died on November 27, 2019 in Ningbo, Zhejiang, China.
Godfrey Gao as Raye Pebender
(Since's he's half Japanese, so maybe they can say he came from Japan to investigate the Kira case in the USA)
19. Anne Watanabe
Actress | Purachina dêta
Anne Watanabe was born on April 14, 1986 in Tokyo, Japan. She is an actress, known for Platinum Data (2013), xxxHOLiC (2013) and Midsummer's Equation (2013). She was previously married to Masahiro Higashide.
Anne Watabe as Naomi Misora
(Naomi should be Japanese since Raye is Half-Japanese and since the American remake will most likely take place in America, they're probably say Raye and her are from Japan)
20. Kevin Bacon
Actor | Footloose
Kevin Norwood Bacon was born on July 8, 1958 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Ruth Hilda (Holmes), an elementary school teacher, and Edmund Norwood Bacon, a prominent architect who was on the cover of Time Magazine in November 1964.
Kevin's early training as an actor came from The Manning Street. ...
Kevin Bacon as Kyosuke Higuchi
21. Seth Green
Actor | Robot Chicken
Seth Green has starred in numerous films and television series including the Austin Powers trilogy, The Italian Job (2003), Without a Paddle (2004), Party Monster (2003), Can't Hardly Wait (1998), Old Dogs (2009) and dozens more, including starring roles in Sexy Evil Genius (2013), The Story of Luke...
Seth Green as the voice of Sidoh
22. Andy Serkis
Actor | War for the Planet of the Apes
English film actor, director and author Andy Serkis is known for his performance capture roles comprising motion capture acting, animation and voice work for such computer-generated characters as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001-2003) and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), ...
Andy Serkis as the voice of Gealous
23. Julianna Margulies
Actress | ER
Julianna Margulies was born on June 8, 1966 in Spring Valley (near New York City), as the youngest of three daughters of Francesca (Goldberg), a teacher and dancer in American Ballet, and Paul Margulies, an advertising writer and philosopher. She is of Ashkenazi Jewish heritage (from Romania, ...
Julianna Margulies as Sachiko Yagami (Light's mother)
24. Jodelle Ferland
Actress | Case 39
Jodelle Micah Ferland has built up an impressive resume filled with roles in film, television and, at the beginning of her career, commercials. Born on October 9, 1994, she got her start in an episode of CTV's Cold Squad (1998), before landing the lead role in her first film, Mermaid (2000) at an ...
Jodelle Ferland as Sayu Yagami (older Sayu)
25. Ariel Winter
Actress | Sofia the First
Ariel Winter is one of Hollywood's most promising young talents with notable roles in both television and film. Ariel stars on ABC's critically acclaimed and Emmy® winning hit series, "Modern Family (2009)." Winter plays 'Alex Dunphy,' the brainy middle child in the Dunphy family, opposite Ty ...
Ariel Winter as Sayu Yagami (younger Sayu)
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