Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-26127155-20150803235010/@comment-734582-20150804082514

I hope that they will do as Peter Jackson did for the Lord of the Rings: Write a story for a movie, don't just 1-on-1 adapt this stuff, because it won't work. If you've read the books (or even just flipped through them) you know what i'm talking about: the source material for LOTR is nothing even remotely close to movie material.

The same is true for Naruto. It's a Manga, which has it's own strengths and limitations. The Anime did some adaptation, and is made for a 20-minute format. A Live-action movie needs to be rewritten to make sense of the story in movie format.

To make it not suck like the Legendary Sucking Movies, it basically has to do two things:
 * Follow the story to a degree that makes sense
 * Make sure that the various elements follow their proper theme and do what they're meant to do.

E.g. ATLA had earth benders make plenty of fancy moves to throw a small rock a few meters. It changed the ethnically varied cast to white. It missed the point entirely with characters, abilities, storylines and plotpoints. e.g. Dragonball was about a lot of things, but didn't even get basic abilities right.