The success of One Piece’s live-action Netflix sequence means western studios are going to be different standard shonen anime to carry to life. My Hero Academia is already on the docket over at Netflix, and we acquired one for Saint Seiya (or Knights of the Zodiac earlier this yr. Subsequent up is perhaps none apart from, drumroll please…Naruto.
Earlier within the week, Variety printed a listing of screenwriters to be looking out for. One of many individuals named was Tasha Huo, and in itemizing her upcoming initiatives—which embrace Netflix’s anime sequence for Tomb Raider, Prime Video’s Critical Role: Mighty Nein, and the upcoming Red Sonja film starring Matilda Lutz—the outlet revealed Huo is creating a Naruto script for Lionsgate. That’s supposedly subsequent on her to-do checklist, although there wasn’t a lot to glean from her part past the truth that she’s engaged on it.
Nonetheless, the truth that a Hollywood Naruto film is even taking place is fairly noteworthy in and of itself. The sequence, initially from manga artist Mashashi Kishimoto, stars the titular teenager Naruto Uzumaki, an orphan who resides within the village of Konoha as its outcast owing to the truth that he’s been holding the spirit of a demonic fox that attacked the village years in the past inside his physique for the reason that day he was born. This isn’t one thing he or different youngsters his age are conscious of, and he’s primarily targeted on successful everybody’s respect by build up his ninja abilities to finally develop into Konoha’s Hokage (village chief). And in working together with his teammates Sakura Haruno and Sasuke Uchiha, the three get caught up in a number of bother, together with terrorist assaults, scientist snake males, and vengeful household grudges.
With an anime adaptation that was boosted partly because of Toonami and a few really great openings all through its run, Naruto grew to become extraordinarily standard. It, alongside Bleach and One Piece, make up the Large Three, referring to how they had been the most important (and within the case of One Piece, long-running) sequence in Shonen Soar through the mid-2000s. By itself, Naruto spawned quite a few anime movies, numerous video video games, and the sequel sequence Boruto, which focuses on his son and is headed up by Kishimoto and artist Mikio Ikemoto.
Lionsgate has been making an attempt to get a Naruto film out the door since 2015 with the assistance of Avi Arad. Again then, director Michael Gracey (The Best Showman) was connected, as nicely Kishimoto to assist co-develop the film. Issues with Gracey fell via and we’ve not heard about it since—however don’t be shocked if that modifications within the subsequent yr or two.
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