Sony Wants to Make Even More Game Adaptations

While Sony itself has had thing of an up-and-down attack erstwhile it comes to video crippled adaptations successful the past–not everything tin beryllium a Last of Us (complimentary) or Uncharted (derogatory)–the workplace isn’t letting its grip loosen connected the Playstation catalogue immoderate clip soon. At CES this week, the workplace announced a slew of caller films and TV bid to bring respective of its gaming franchises to life.

During its property keynote for the Las Vegas electronics lawsuit past night, Sony revealed 3 caller large projects betwixt Playstation Studios and its assorted divisions–two movies, adapting the satirical sci-fi co-operative shooter Helldivers and Guerrilla’s  post-apocalyptic robo-dinosaur huntsman Horizon: Zero Dawn (after an attempted Netflix bid fell apart), and a caller anime done Crunchyroll and Aniplex adapting the multiplayer constituent of Sucker Punch’s samurai open-world game, Ghost of Tsushima: Legends, animated by Kamikaze Douga and acceptable for merchandise successful 2027.

Little is known astir the movie projects–although overmuch tin beryllium said of the circular quality of Sony, who owns the Starship Troopers movie rights, fundamentally making a movie adaptation of a crippled that asked “What if Starship Troopers was a multiplayer shooter?” to viral success past year–beyond the information that they present exist. But they should travel arsenic nary astonishment fixed the increasing Hollywood inclination of looking to video games for root material, and the occurrence (after years of failure) of adaptations similar the Sonic movies or, arsenic antecedently mentioned, Sony’s ain occurrence with HBO on The Last of Us. And adjacent little of 1 from the viewpoint of the modern Playstation exclusive library, which has leaned connected a cinematic-experience-driven narratives and aesthetics for a portion astatine this point. Games became movies, and present games that became movies are becoming movies that were games. Understood?

After years of distrust-by-default–something that arguably inactive lingers, adjacent successful the look of successes large and small–will Sony’s all-in adaptive attack to its gaming franchises wage off? Time volition tell, it’s apt going to beryllium a bully mates much years earlier we spot oregon perceive thing much substantiate astir immoderate of these projects. Plus, the workplace already has the lofty, daunting expectations of its concern with Nintendo to marque a Legend of Zelda movie looming connected the horizon. Maybe interest astir that 1 archetypal earlier we rummage adjacent much profoundly into the Playstation catalogue.

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