I've been congratulating Viz on trying a new theatrical strategy for their release of the live action DEATH NOTE movies as special events on May 20 and 21 only, but I had to pause recently when I found out that, despite Fangoria announcing they were subbed, the films will be screened dubbed. The confirmed voice cast (via Viz) are:

Light Yagami - Brad Swaile
L/Ryuzaki - Alessandro Juliani
Soichiro Yagami - Chris Britton
Death God Ryuk - Brain Drummond

I'm not a big anime fan, so for me dubbing is the kiss of death. However, anime fans seem to have less aversion to dubbing and from reading the forums they don't seem too miffed or upset about this, so who knows? Maybe it'll work for them.� In the meantime, you can check out the English dub of the film in the Viz trailer (via Fango) here.

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