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Tracking Board: Lionsgate is Working on Naruto Movie
posted on
2015-08-01 04:18 UTC-8
Michael Gracey in talks to direct
Hollywood news website The Tracking Board
reported on Thursday that Lionsgate has closed the rights to adapt
Masashi Kishimoto's
Naruto manga into a film.
Lionsgate is in talks with Michael Gracey to direct. Gracey has previously worked in visual effects and animation, and is now directing several upcoming films, such as an adaptation of Roald Dahl's
The Witches and an Elton John biopic
Rocketman.
Avi Arad (Hollywood's
Ghost in the Shell,
Gamba: Gamba to Nakama-tachi) is producing the film at Arad Productions, and Erik Feig, Geoff Shaveitz and Kelly O'Malley are overseeing the film.
Source: Variety
Thanks to Timothy Lincolne for the news tip.
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