Death Note - Both are special kids in different ways

See, this is one of the worst changes you could make, because… well, Light's whole character is based on the fact that he WASN'T a burgeoning psychopath. He was intelligent and moral. He was pretty well-off. He had a good family life. He had friends. He was good-looking and physically fit. If Light hadn't found it, he would probably end up being a lawyer or a policeman and having a long and prosperous career as a model citizen. And none of that saved him; the idea was that the temptation of the Death Note would have corrupted anyone. Making him a school shooter from the start just tells us that when you give a bad person power, they'll… stay a bad person.

Either its 'instead of shooting up his school he gets supernatural powers' or there is a well executed prank with hundreds of people on KYM, Reddit, and rotten tomatoes all pulling a fast one on us.

Some day I want to find out why the overall Hollywood machine likes to take material that a small group likes, then actively set about to ruin what they love. Making a faithful adaptation would cost just as much money as making shit. In fact I suspect the faithful adaptations save a lot on writing. It has to be someone willing to lose potential profits for the principal of ruining anime adaptations. I can come up with no better explanation.