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Naruto fans divided by news of live-action remake: ‘You can’t adapt the main story’

Source: Shueisha

Lionsgate has announced that Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton will write and direct a live-action film adaptation of Naruto.

The manga series by Masashi Kishimoto, which has sold more than 250 million volumes worldwide, tells the story of Naruto Uzumaki, a young ninja who dreams of becoming the the leader of his village.

The comics spawned a , which ran for more than

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