Nat Wolff, a newcomer who made his mark in Paper Towns, is in talks to star in the horror film Death Note, produced by Warner Bros. and based on the popular Japanese manga of the same name. Written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata, Death Note is a psychological suspense mystery manga that was serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump from December 2003 to May 2006. The protagonist of the story is a high school student who accidentally picked up a notebook and found that as long as he wrote a person's name in the notebook, that person would die immediately. A series of mysterious deaths caused by the high school student attracted the attention of a detective, who began to track down the murderer and try to unravel the truth. Death Note has been adapted into an animated TV series, two live-action movies and a video game in Japan. Warner bought the rights to the American version of the film a few years ago, but it was not until the beginning of this year that it decided to let Adam Wingard, the director of "The Guest", to direct it.