Naruto Live Action Movies

[gjpaixao13]

Hello Base!!!

First, I want to state that this is a personal opinion and that I do agree that it can cause some "distortion" on the story and other troubles, and I'll be speaking of these too.

This is my opinion :

Well, it's safe to assume that one episode, completely rid of fillers, have, in average, 3.5(2 to 5) chapters.
And we know too that an episode has 20 minutes duration. We now have plenty of movies who surpassed 120 minutes.
So lets put, that EACH Naruto's movies has in average 150 minutes, or 2 hours and 30 minutes.
Lets do some basic math :
150/20 = 7.5 "episodes". 7.5 * 3.5 = 26.25 manga chapters per movie.

Now lets talk about the possibilities of arcs:

• In the anime, Zabuza's arc was 19 episodes long(with the initial episodes).
  
• The Chunin - Konoha's Attack arc spanned from chapter 20 to 80. First Akatsuki attack from Tsunade's becoming the 5th Hokage spaned from 81 to 99.
  
• Finally Sasuke's retrieval arc spanned from 107 to to 135.

We have, in total, 127 episodes from the original Naruto. If we compressed that into a "trilogy" we could have, in max, 79~ episodes. But in movies, we do not always stay "TRUE" to the source, the scripts need to adapt to the cinema's standards. Among those 127 episodes, we had a lot of "half-fillers" episodes, with stuff that has nothing to do with the plot. So from those 127, we can filter 30 episodes at least of these fillers. With 100 episodes, I'm sure the writers can adapt the story to leave some details off-screen and show us the plot's core.

With shippuden, I won't be doing the same, because it is a mess of fillers, half-fillers to form an argument, but the same can be done with patience. "Oh, but Shippuden has many more episodes then the original.It would span more then 10 movies alone". But Shippuden has a LOT more fillers too, so even though I agree that shippuden has much more plot, I think they could be compressed into 5 or 6 movies.

The Cons :

1. Lenght - 6 + 3 = NINE movies. But is it a real deal? With Harry Potter franchise spanning 7 movies(I think), Lord of the Rings with 5 so far, coming to a 6th movie, we can safely say that linked movies are no longer a problem. But it's also safe to say that this would be a hard thing to do.
2. Adaptation - I share the same concern that they could mess Naruto's plot completely, but I'm willing to take the risk.
3. Audience - This would be logically target to children, but as many naruto's fans are now teenagers or even adults, they could make a PG-13 or PG movie. Also, it can be said that only otakus would watch these movies, but the idea it's completely wrong. I grew up with people who always made fun of comic books, animes, mangas, video games etc and now are The Avenger's movie number one fan.
   Also, we could "compare" the Harry Potter explosion with Naruto. The Harry Potter's franchise was less known before the movies than Naruto, so if they can make a real nice Naruto movie chain, this could become a huge financial success.

These are my 2 cents. What do you think??

TLR - Naruto's movies FTW!!!

 

[Raphael sannin]

COOL=D:bouncy:

 

[Naruto99Uzumaki]

too long bruh

 

[Yuse]

well naruto has one hell of a dedicated fanbase or else we wouldnt be here right now i say it could work

 

[Yuse]

however if the effects werent good then no

 

[SkyGodHorus]

To get the full story of Naruto, you'd need to make fifteen very long films, each encompassing the fifteen arcs.

part 1
1) Zabuza and Haku
2) Chuunin exams: Forest of Death
3) Chuunin exams conclusion: Orochimaru's rebellion
4) The search for Tsunade
5) Rescue Sasuke

Part 2 prologue
1) Sasori and Deidara
2) Sai and Sasuke
3) Hidan and Kakuzu
4) The hunt for Itachi
5) Pein's invasion

Part 2 epilogue
1) Five kage summit
2) confining the jinchurikis/turtle Island
3) forth war/edo tensei
4) juubi revival
5) return of Madara

 

[xPHARAOHx]

If they made a Naruto movie it would have to be about the Zabuza arc, and the first few episodes of Naruto as well. They'd have to cut out a lot of stuff though. America shouldn't do it either because they'd fuk it up.

 

[gjpaixao13]

It won't be the complete story. It could be an adaptation, faithful to the manga of course, but not the whole thing.
I think 10 movies would be ideal.

 

[Bakimono]

Nah it would be or should be in my opinion just about Shippuden or make him a little older I have no interest in seeing a child naruto. So 6 movies max go for a saga. So like so first three movie be about like his first missions and training leading up to his fight with Pain.

 

[Gdamon]

heck no!!...

DRAGON BALL EVOLUTION...

THE LAST AIRBENDER...

good shows make terrible movies!!...

 

[gjpaixao13]

Nah it would be or should be in my opinion just about Shippuden or make him a little older I have no interest in seeing a child naruto. So 6 movies max go for a saga. So like so first three movie be about like his first missions and training leading up to his fight with Pain.

It would work really well for the fans, but would fail to deliver to casual viewers. And they are the ones who must be targeted to have a financial success.

 

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They made it look weird. It looks like a Fish Warrior. I hope he gets complete Susano'o at least.​

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[cptenn94]

I think they could make a successful Naruto movie franchise. But it would be tough to do a proper adaptation. Certain things look awesome in manga or anime form, but horrible in live action form.

The reason the lord of the rings and harry potter movies were so successful, is because they were stories that described people as they would be in real life(so no cartoony characteristics), and they were already successful book franchises.