Destin Daniel Cretton’s live-action Naruto movie now has a finished script and will tell a “nuanced and special” story about the Hidden Leaf Village’s yellow-haired ninja in training. Our latest update on the adaptation of one of the biggest anime of all time comes from an interview Entertainment Weekly conducted with writer Tasha Huo. She says that her “script is done” and has been passed to Cretton, who is writing and directing the project.
A completed script means the Naruto movie has reached a major milestone, and Huo says she’s optimistic about its direction. She trusts the director, saying that his “very personal and relatable” style is one element of his films she enjoys. Huo adds that she feels the director, who is best known for helming Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and 2019’s Just Mercy, will take Naruto’s story in a direction that avoids the franchise’s already large world.
“I think that’s such a cool choice because he’s going to be able to capture how nuanced and special Naruto is without getting distracted by the big world that it is, which I think could easily be done by someone who’s not a fan or someone who’s coming in for a cash payday," she says. "This is definitely a movie that comes at it from a love of who Naruto is and that character and his relationships." Naruto had humble beginnings, starting as a manga series by Masashi Kishimoto in 1997.
Its popularity has ballooned since then, as the series h.