Following the success of Sonic the Hedgehog, and little question with a watch on the massive reputation of FX’s Shogun collection, Deadline has reported {that a} Shinobi film is within the works. The collection started in 1987 with a side-scrolling arcade sport and would discover large success with sequels on the Mega Drive / Genesis, however barring a few (pretty good) PlayStation 2 entries within the early 2000s, and a forgettable 3DS sport in 2011, Shinobi has not been part of the gaming panorama for a while.
That’s going to alter: Sega is presently growing a Shinobi reboot, with leaked footage displaying a standard side-scrolling motion sport with a beautiful artwork model. The movie nonetheless is outwardly loosely primarily based on the unique arcade sport’s plot, which featured ninja Joe Musashi combating the Zeed terrorist group, who for some motive are kidnapping all his college students.
Loads of blanks for author Ken Kobayashi to fill in, then. Kobayashi’s written for exhibits together with Hit-Monkey and Moonfall, whereas his screenplay Transfer On is presently in growth at Columbia.
Sam Hargrave is signed on as director. Hargrave beforehand directed the 2 Extraction films for Netflix: the primary is the most-watched unique movie within the platform’s historical past, with the sequel additionally enormously in style. He is additionally directing Mattel’s Matchbox movie and Paramount’s quaintly titled Kill Them All, so a model tie-in about stabbing a lot of dudes with a katana looks like a very good match for his oeuvre.
There are additionally an entire cavalcade of producers connected: Marc Platt, Adam Siegel, Dmitri M. Johnson, government producers Mike Goldberg and Timothy I. Stevenson, and Sega’s Toru Nakahara.
Videogame films are all the fad now that Hollywood’s managed to make a number of respectable ones and seen the potential returns. In addition to the Sonic collection of movies, which has a 3rd entry incoming, the large success lately was the $1.4 billion gross of The Tremendous Mario Bros. Film. OK there’s been a Borderlands or two alongside the best way, and who is aware of which aspect of the fence Shinobi will find yourself on. However I do hope they get the canine from Shadow Dancer in there by some means.
