{"id":599550,"date":"2026-08-20T21:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T21:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/599550\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T21:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T21:30:11","slug":"charles-melton-in-talks-for-naruto-movie-as-kakashi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/599550\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Melton in Talks for &#8216;Naruto&#8217; Movie as Kakashi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/charles-melton\/\" id=\"auto-tag_charles-melton\" data-tag=\"charles-melton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Melton<\/a> is in close talks to play Kakashi Hatake in Destin Daniel Cretton\u2019s upcoming live-action \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/naruto\/\" id=\"auto-tag_naruto\" data-tag=\"naruto\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Naruto<\/a>\u201d movie, Variety has learned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe news comes amid speculation that Melton would be announced to join the \u201cX-Men\u201d cast at last week\u2019s D23 convention. The global \u201cNaruto\u201d casting search <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/news\/naruto-movie-casting-search-live-action-actors-1236806103\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">began last month<\/a> to find the live-action versions of Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura. The manga and popular anime series follow adolescent ninja Naruto, who dreams of becoming his community\u2019s protector and leader known as the village ninja.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tVariety has reached out to Lionsgate for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMelton was recently Emmy-nominated for his role in Netflix\u2019s \u201cBeef\u201d Season 2 alongside Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan and Cailee Spaeny. He received critical acclaim for his work in Todd Haynes\u2019 \u201cMay December,\u201d which released in 2023, and is also known for starring in \u201cHer Private Hell,\u201d \u201cWarfare\u201d and \u201cRiverdale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tCretton is coming off of his box-office smash hit \u201cSpider-Man: Brand New Day,\u201d which has grossed over $800 million domestically, becoming the fastest film to ever hit the milestone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe \u201cNaruto\u201d director got his start working in the indie film space with \u201cShort Term 12,\u201d which released in 2013 and starred Brie Larson, LaKeith Stanfield, Rami Malek and Kaitlyn Dever. After directing \u201cThe Glass Castle\u201d and \u201cJust Mercy,\u201d he made the leap to big-budget studio films with Marvel\u2019s \u201cShang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,\u201d which released in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAvi Arad, Ari Arad and Emmy Yu will produce \u201cNaruto\u201d for Arad Productions with Jeremy Latcham.\u00a0Cretton\u00a0is producing alongside Jeyun Munford through his\u00a0company,\u00a0Hisako.\u00a0Back in 2014, there was an attempt to get a \u201cNaruto\u201d movie off the ground with Michael Gracey\u00a0attached as director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charles Melton is in close talks to play Kakashi Hatake in Destin Daniel Cretton\u2019s upcoming live-action \u201cNaruto\u201d movie,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[41877,93,61,60,270,116360],"class_list":["post-599550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-charles-melton","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-naruto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}