News One Piece Live Action Series!!

[ShinichiMugi]

I don't know if Kishimoto is a formal producer on this project like Oda is with the live-action One Piece but he did give his blessing and input to the director, Daniel Cretton, and has seen his previous movies (Shang-Chi, Just Mercy, Short Term 12).

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/naruto-movie-in-the-works-1235833511/



I was iffy on the idea of a film at first but looking back on the manga arcs, I think Part 1 of Naruto could actually be structured as a solid 3-4 film series like the early Harry Potter movies.
First film is the prologue and Land of Waves where the fantasy setting is laid out and the main characters of Team 7 and their interpersonal dynamics are explored
Second film is the Chunin Exams that goes up through the preliminaries (it's basically just Hunger Games)
Third and fourth films are a two-parter that comprise the Konoha Crush, Search for Tsunade and Sasuke Recovery

Yes! Naruto and Harry Potter stories always had many things in common after all. So thats the right model to follow for these Naruto's movies

 

[ZippySpace]

Yes! Naruto and Harry Potter stories always had many things in common after all. So thats the right model to follow for these Naruto's movies

Even Kishimoto has mentioned before how similar his characters were to Harry Potter's upon watching the first movie. Obviously the thematic similarities are unintentional since Kishimoto didn't know what Harry Potter was when Naruto began in 1999 but they're fun to point out.

 

[Devilbat]

Even Kishimoto has mentioned before how similar his characters were to Harry Potter's upon watching the first movie. Obviously the thematic similarities are unintentional since Kishimoto didn't know what Harry Potter was when Naruto began in 1999 but they're fun to point out.

OP old men, favorite characters, and cool godfathers all die 😭

 

[ZippySpace]

tbh if Lionsgate gets this Naruto movie right then they'll have Gen Z audiences hooked for the next decade. If you've been reading the trades for what's going on in the blockbuster movie industry you'd know that the big studios are desperate for that audience as they're the biggest moviegoing age demographic. Many of the reliable old franchises are aging out of relevancy and new stuff is surprising audiences: Star Wars' big return to theater flopped tremendously, superheroes movies are a dying breed outside of the few established icons (Spider-Man, Batman) and two of the top 10 highest grossing films of the year are low budget horror films by young directors (one original and the other based on an internet story).

Naruto is an extremely sacred franchise in that demo and was a phenomenon in the mid-2000s as the most popular series during the big three shonen boom. A Naruto movie that's well made could legit be a Harry Potter level film franchise. I understand why this movie is finally being made now as opposed to earlier attempts that didn't launch.