Netflix is hoping fans of Death Note will let bygones be bygones.

The platformed produced a Death Note film in 2017, and fans weren’t that impressed – the movie currently has a 23% favorable rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with reviewer Kristy Puchko calling it “a whitewashed, hasty, and vapid adaptation that offers one great performance, few thrills, and lots of missed opportunities.”

Undaunted, Netflix is returning to the IP to produce a live-action series. with Halia Abdel-Meguid on board to write and executive produce for project, which is being developed by the Upside Down production company run by Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer. 

Death Note originated as a manga written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata, which was published in 12 volumes between 2003 and 2006. The books follow Light Yagami, a teenage boy who finds the Death Note, a mysterious black notebook that gives him the power to kill anyone whose name and face he knows, if he writes their name down. He struggles having such almighty power, and becomes the target of law enforcement around the world.

The first adaptation of the manga was a 37-episode television series, produced by Madhouse and broadcast in Japan from 2006-7. The 2017 film was live-action and starred Nat Wolff as Light and also starred Lakeith Stanfield, Margaret Qualley, Shea Whigham, Paul Nakauchi, Jason Liles, and Willem Dafoe.

Abdel-Meguid also wrote for Hulu’s upcoming (and somewhat troubled) adaptation of The Devil in the White City. She got her start as an actress and musician in London before turning to screenwriting and graduating from AFI in 2018. She is also a writing consultant on their series adaptation of Stephen King and Peter Straub’s novel The Talisman.