Live Action Naruto

[Creed]

Live-Action Hollywood movie for Naruto announced! From Lionsgate, Michael Gracey directing.

From Shonen Jump.

[detective392]

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...ghlight=naruto

Wish we could get a look at the concept art.

[Diew]

Originally Posted by detective392

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...ghlight=naruto

Wish we could get a look at the concept art.

I posted on the original topic

[InuYashaCrusade]

Naruto Live-Action Movie Surfaces with First Casting Details

https://comicbook.com/anime/news/nar...-casting-call/

"Naruto Uzumaki is a teenage ninja who dreams of becoming the community's leader and protector by becoming the village ninja."

What the hell is "the village ninja", do they mean Hokage? They're going for an Asian cast. 2 high school aged males (Naruto and Sasuke), 1 female (Sakura), 2 academy instructors (Iruka and Kakashi? Or Mizuki?), and an Asian villain.

I don't know who they could go with for one single villain. If they're following the manga then Zabuza would be the most logical choice but he would require Haku, so that'd be 2. Haku isn't technically a villain though, sorta kinda. It's much too soon for Orochimaru.

[Shingster]

Sounds like they're gonna turn the ninja villages into more generic villages with only a few ninja in them, hence Naruto becoming a village ninja.

[InuYashaCrusade]

Originally Posted by Shingster

Sounds like they're gonna turn the ninja villages into more generic villages with only a few ninja in them, hence Naruto becoming a village ninja.

They could introduce the other teams in a second movie to keep the budget down. Start the first film off real light with the Zabuza arc. Then the second movie will be the Chunin Exams and setting up Orochimaru giving Sasuke the curse mark. The first half of the third film could show the rift growing between Naruto and Sasuke, prompting Sasuke to leave the village and begin the retrieval arc.

[NARMAK]

Naruto doesn't work in live action like many anime. Happy to be proven wrong.

Can't wait for the day that photorealistic CGI is the norm as that will make it possible to do justice to most book/game adaptations and likely to be handled by the original creators in writing it all up and so on than some hacks having a go from Hollywood with no clue and dumbing it down or ripping the soul out of it.

[Shingster]

The problem with adapting stuff like Naruto isn't necessarily pulling off the special effects, it's the problem of adapting long form story telling into short form films. The only way yu can pull off a successful Naruto adaptation is by connecting the right talent to the project, someone that can completely reimagine it in the right way. An exceptionally difficult job to pull off.

[NARMAK]

Originally Posted by Shingster

The problem with adapting stuff like Naruto isn't necessarily pulling off the special effects, it's the problem of adapting long form story telling into short form films. The only way yu can pull off a successful Naruto adaptation is by connecting the right talent to the project, someone that can completely reimagine it in the right way. An exceptionally difficult job to pull off.

That's true too. It's like making a movie of a TV show and condensing that down all into a 2hr runtime or less without losing anything meaningful to the story. That's just almost impossible to some degree and we saw it all happen with some of the live action movies we have got even straight out of Japan.

So to me, maybe a photorealistic CGI version done not beat for beat but taking out some of the filler, and keeping the story streamlined would work for a TV show with longer episodes of the anime combined. Follow the manga perhaps more.

If it comes to a movie, maybe somebody smart could do it but i don't fancy their chances in live action with actors pulling off the necessary budget for action. At least in animation if photorealistic, you could eventually do it justice to all the fights because you can place digital cameras and have effects you cannot really have in live action.

[Koller70]

The only good adaptation of an anime into a live action film was Bleach.
I don't have hope for this.

[CyberpunkCentral]

[InuYashaCrusade]

Originally Posted by Koller70

The only good adaptation of an anime into a live action film was Bleach.
I don't have hope for this.

The Rurouni Kenshin live actions were solid

[gundamcero]

Rurouni Kenshin was great.

Bleach was awful.


This will be shit.

[Mikezilla3k]

Only live action anime adaption I've seen was Attack On Titan Part 1 and that was crap.

[CyberpunkCentral]

Originally Posted by Mikezilla3k

Only live action anime adaption I've seen was Attack On Titan Part 1 and that was crap.

Mines is Edge of Tomorrow.

[Shingster]

Edge of Tomorrow is not an anime adaptation. It's not even a manga adaptation.

[CyberpunkCentral]

Originally Posted by Shingster

Edge of Tomorrow is not an anime adaptation. It's not even a manga adaptation.

[Shingster]

Im pretty sure you've done this before and I corrected you then as well. All You Need is Kill was a Light Novel pubished in 2004 and adapted into a two-volume manga in 2014. This manga was first published in January 2014, about half a year after Edge of Tomorrow had finished shooting. Edge of Tomorrow cannot possibly be an adaptation of a manga that didn't exist when they were making the film!

[CyberpunkCentral]

Originally Posted by Shingster

Im pretty sure you've done this before and I corrected you then as well. All You Need is Kill was a Light Novel pubished in 2004 and adapted into a two-volume manga in 2014. This manga was first published in January 2014, about half a year after Edge of Tomorrow had finished shooting. Edge of Tomorrow cannot possibly be an adaptation of a manga that didn't exist when they were making the film!

Anime, light novels, manga, JRPGs, whatever. All part of the otaku genre anyway.

[Shingster]

Again yu said the same thing last time and I pointed out that adapting a Light Novel into a film is a hell of a lot straightforward because its basically a novella, in other words at the perfect length to adapt into script form. Adapting anime is a very different thing.

Also to lump all thse different mediums into "otaku genre" is not only incredibly lazy, but incredibly ignorant, especially when you call it a genre. It's not a genre! You'e combining four different mediums and calling it all a genre.