Destin Daniel Cretton might be making his Naruto movie before a Shang-Chi sequel, and its first writer trusts him

Like it or not, a live-action Naruto movie seems to be coming from Hollywood after spending many years in development hell. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton is currently attached to the project, and while he might have the directing sauce needed to pull off a flashy manga/anime adaptation, we’re understandably worried about such a tricky transition regardless. Now, the movie’s original writer is trying to calm fans down.Entertainment Weekly recently talked to scribe Tasha Huo, the showrunner for Netflix’s upcoming Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft animated series, and of course, tried to extract new information regarding Naruto. To their surprise (and everyone else’s), she actually spoke at length about the process of putting that movie together …

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Bandai Namco's ill-fated MMO Blue Protocol is shutting down in January – killing Amazon Games' Worldwide release at the same time

Bandai Namco’s ill-fated MMORPG Blue Protocol has officially had a tombstone ordered on its behalf, as the company has announced it’ll be ceasing service in January 2025. What that means in basic terms is that the servers will be shut down and the game will die, but what’s particularly interesting here is that Bandai Namco has also announced that the worldwide port of Blue Protocol – which was being handled by Amazon Games – is also dead. That version of the game was never actually released, quietly shifting its summer 2024 release date to a vague 2024 window earlier this year.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings It’s a sad end for a game that unfortunately didn’t bring in the anticipated revenue Bandai Namco was looking for. In a financial report, the…

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