CINEMA: SEGA and Universal team up to adapt a cult franchise into a film, the director already known

Adaptations of video games to cinema are not newthe fashion started in the early 90s, but it took many years before these films lived up to gamers’ expectations. Recently, it is Sonic the Hedgehog which makes the star on the big screen with very correct adaptations, a third film will also arrive in cinemas at the very end of the year.

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This gives the Japanese publisher and developer further ideas. As revealed Deadline, SEGA will be unfaithful to Paramount Pictures to associate with Universal Pictures in order to produce a film adapted from the franchise Shinobi. The license has been in the closet for a very long time, but it will make a comeback with the wave of game remakes SEGAof gameplay even leaked a few weeks ago. Originally launched on arcade machines in 1987 and ported over the following years to Master System, NES and other machines of the time, the first Shinobi is a side-scrolling action game following a ninja who must stop a criminal organization through five levels.

The movie Shinobi will be directed by Sam Hargravewho was notably a stuntman on the last Pirates of the Caribbean and stunt coordinator on films from Marvel Cinematic Universebut he was already behind the camera to direct both Tyler Rake (Extraction in VO), action films with Chris Hemsworth, available on Netflix and rather friendly. The screenplay will be written by Ken Kobayashi (Hit Monkey, Sunny), while production will be handled by Marc Platt and Adam Siegel (Marc Platt Productions), Toru Nakahara (SEGA) and Dmitri M. Johnson (Story Kitchenhim again), also with Mike Goldberg and Timothy I. Stevenson as executive producers.

We will now have to wait until we discover the casting of this movie Shinobiexpected on our screens at a date still unknown. On the side of SEGAIt is Like a Dragon: Yakuza which will arrive on Prime Video in the coming days you can subscribe to Amazon Prime from €6.99 per month.

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