Here’s everything we know about the planned live-action Naruto movie. Starting out as a Shonen manga series from Masashi Kishimoto, Naruto is the story of a young ninja ostracized from his village due to a demonic fox housed inside the boy’s body. As Naruto Uzumaki’s tale progresses, he strives to overcome his unhappy fate and earn the respect and recognition of those around him, and he’s eventually elected as the leader of his homeland. The moral of the story, of course, being that people will learn to like you pretty quickly if you keep saving their lives. Naruto was soon adapted into an anime series, and this helped earn the franchise a passionate worldwide following, that it still enjoys today, despite the main series having already concluded.

As one of the premier anime exports in the West, Naruto is prime material for Hollywood adaptation, but it certainly isn’t the first Japanese property to attract international suitors. Dragon Ball Z gave rise to Dragonball Evolution, Scarlett Johansson starred in Ghost in the Shell and Netflix released a live-action version of Death Note. The common denominator between that trio of movies is a distinct lack of quality, but there remain a handful of Western anime productions in the pipeline, including the long-awaited Akira and Cowboy Bebop.