Death Note: The script for the series will be written by Khalia Abdel-Megid.

Matt and Ross Duffer hire Haliya Abdel-Megid as a writer and producer on the television series Death Note.

While the streaming platform Netflix made a Death Note adaptation in 2017, the television series produced by the Duffer Brothers at Upside Down Pictures will be a brand new version of the manga written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. Longtime fan of manga and anime, Japanese-speaking Halia Abdel-Meguid, who lives in Tokyo, is taking on the script for the television series Death Note after working with the creators of Stranger Things on another project developed by Upside Down Pictures for Netflix namely adaptation of Stephen King and Peter Straub’s novel The Talisman.

EXCLUSIVE: Halia Abdel-Meguid has been brought on board to write and EP Death Note, a Japanese manga and anime film adaptation originally written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata, which is in development at Netflix . http://t.co/BnZygAllus

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For reference, Death Note is about a brilliant teenager who discovers a mysterious black notebook that grants him the supernatural power of death and life, the latter of which can be obtained by writing a person’s name in the same notebook. A teenager becomes addicted to power as he sets out to purge the world of the unwanted while a legal team tries to stop him.

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Several producers from the 2017 film Death Note also joined the series, such as Dan Lin (Ride Back) and Roy Lee (Vertigo) as executive producers, and Jonathan Eirich (Ride Back) and Miri Yun (“Vertigo”) as co-executive producers.