Nat Wolff, the newcomer who starred in Paper Towns, is in talks to star in the horror film Death Note, produced by Warner Bros. and based on popular Japanese comics of the same name. The death Note, created for Tsugumi Ohba and painted by Takeshi Obata, is a set of psychological suspense reasoning cartoons serialized in Ji Ying Society's Weekly Juvenile 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 on the notebook, that person would die immediately. A series of mysterious deaths by the high school student attracted the attention of a detective who began to track down the killer and try to unravel the truth. The 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 several years ago, and it wasn't until the beginning of this year that it decided to let the director of The Guest.