Sega to Adapt SHINOBI, ALTERED BEAST, and More into Movies
Sega is jumping into the movie business, and they are looking to adapt several of their video game properties into movies. They’ve hired former Break Media executive Evan Cholfin to lead their efforts in making all of this happen.
Sega has a pretty big library of titles that they can adapt, and Variety reports that they plan on moving forward with Shinobi, Altered Beast, Streets of Rage, Rise of Nightmares, Crazy Taxi, Virtua Fighter, and Golden Axe. These will all be developed as live-action English-language films, and there will be animated spinoffs as well.
I remember playing all of these games when I was growing up! Shinobi, Altered Beast, Streets of Rage, Virtua Fighter, and Golden Axe were all favorites of mine. I’m pretty damn excited about the fact that they are getting feature film adaptations.
I have no idea what to expect in terms of film quality, but I hope they’re good. I wouldn’t mind seeing a couple of funny, cheesy movies made out of these games as well. Let's face it, as awesome as they are, you just can’t take some of them seriously.
Hopefully we don’t have to wait too long before we start seeing them go into development. What games listed here are you most excited about seeing turned into a movie?