‘Naruto’ Film in the Works at Lionsgate With Destin Daniel Cretton Directing

Lionsgate has closed a deal with director "Shang-Chi" director Destin Daniel Cretton to write and direct a live-action film adaptation of "Naruto."

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‘Naruto’ Film in the Works at Lionsgate With Destin Daniel Cretton Directing

Lionsgate has closed a deal with “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” director Destin Daniel Cretton to write and direct a live-action film adaptation of the manga classic “Naruto.” The announcement was made today by Adam Fogelson, chair, Lionsgate Motion Picture Group.

The movie will be based on the manga created by Masashi Kishimoto. “Naruto” has printed over 250 million copies in more than 60 countries and territories. It follows adolescent ninja Naruto Uzumaki, who dreams of becoming his community’s protector and leader known as the village ninja.

“It was a true honor to meet Kishimoto-san in Tokyo and hear his expansive vision for his creation,” said Cretton. “We are very excited to collaborate and bring ‘Naruto’ to the big screen.”

Masashi Kishimoto said, “When I heard of Destin’s attachment, it happened to be right after watching a blockbuster action film of his, and I thought he would be the perfect director for ‘Naruto.’ After enjoying his other films and understanding that his forte is in creating solid dramas about people, I became convinced that there is no other director for ‘Naruto.'”

Quote from keyboardwarrior7

Cringe. My expectations are rock bottom.

I have yet to see a live action anime remake that lived up the source material.

Closest so far is One Piece.

unfortunately ONE PIECE's success is going to result in every major anime being adapted by Hollywood for there is also a My Hero Academia movie in the works too

what's worse is that while Kishi is telling fans that he is personally involved with the project so everything is good the truth is that his words aren't particularly reassuring, he is also personally overseeing the production of Boruto and so far the later hasn't lived to expectations

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Hmmmm not feeling too good about this. Live actions tend to be worse than their animated counterparts.

if it was a series i would feel slightly more confident about it but i can't imagine how would you even fit a Naruto arc within a single movie for example the first two full volumes of Naruto are just about him meeting Sasuke, Sakura and Kakashi and ends with the bell training, the stuff about Zabusa which is the actual first major arc takes until the end of volume 4

how would one fit that into a 120 minutes movie?

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Fuck everything about this

Where are the new part 1 episodes????

unfortunately they were "postponed" but to be honest they were most likely canceled, they were supposed to air back in October but the studio said that due to issues with the quality of them they were going to be rehashed, it's almost March already so half a year without news about it

[Brand-New Anime in Celebration of NARUTO Anime's 20th Anniversary] Broadcast Postponed | NARUTO OFFICIAL SITE (NARUTO & BORUTO)

The broadcast of the new, 4-week animation celebrating the NARUTO anim

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worth mention that Pierrot are currently working on the new season of Bleach TYBW maybe that is related to it but in any case not only they haven't say anything about the new EPs but also no news of the Boruto anime coming back