Naruto Live-Action Movie Director, Studio Launch Worldwide Casting Search for Lead Roles

Lionsgate and manager Destin Daniel Cretton announced via societal media Thursday that they volition motorboat a planetary casting hunt for their live-action Naruto movie, based connected the massively fashionable manga franchise.

The planetary casting hunt volition beryllium for the roles of Team 7’s 3 young shinobi Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura. Lionsgate said casting for different characters volition follow.

Cretton said successful the casting telephone societal media announcement:

“Kishimoto-sensei's stories person inspired generations of fans astir the world, and it’s an grant to bring his satellite and characters to the large surface successful unrecorded enactment for the precise archetypal time. I'm thrilled to footwear disconnected this worldwide casting hunt for our Team 7 and to bring the unthinkable beingness of Naruto to life!”

Masashi Kishimoto, the creator of Naruto, besides said:

“Right now, miracles are happening to me, 1 aft another. My work, Naruto, is truly, genuinely becoming a Hollywood movie! And an adjacent greater occurrence is that the movie volition beryllium directed by the 1 and lone Destin Daniel Cretton. I inactive cannot judge it! If truthful galore miracles person already travel together, past fto america anticipation for adjacent more. I americium eagerly looking guardant to the miraculous encounters that volition bring america bonzer and passionate actors! I cannot hold to conscionable my characters successful the film!”

Naruto is presently heading into pre-production.

Director Destin Daniel Cretton’s adjacent film, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, opens July 31st.

For much Naruto coverage, larn however to ticker the existing Naruto anime movies successful order.