The Naruto and Boruto stage event at the Jump Festa event confirmed on Saturday that Lionsgate and director Michael Gracey (The Greatest Showman) are working on a live-action Hollywood film adaptation of Masashi Kishimoto’s Naruto manga.
The manga has spawned the Naruto and Naruto Shippūden television anime series, OVAs, several anime films, spinoff manga, the Boruto sequel manga series, a series of novels, stage plays, and video games.
The event also showed pre-production art, and revealed that Kishimoto himself is involved in the production.
Kishimoto launched ninja manga in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 1999, and ended the series in November 2014.