Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-26127155-20150803235010/@comment-5547501-20150804112346

Thekillman wrote: That depends on how you look at it. PJ did quite a bit of streamlining. E.g. Helm's deep is changed quite a bit to make a more streamlined story, and the Saruman storyline is given a very different ending. Even Hobbiton is given a happy end in favor of the books. And Arwen, the love interest, does not appear once in the book (only in the appendixes)

That's what i meant: The story would have to be adapted to become a movie. make it work for a movie. You're right then, they changed some things to make the material fit better as a movie. The only thing is, there is no way that I can imagine you would slightly be able to change anything in Naruto to make it work as a movie yet still remain faithful to the source. It would have to be changed so drastically that it would lose nearly everything that made it what it is (like DBE and ATLA) or it would have a very odd and likely horrible plot for a single movie.