Universal Footage and SEGA Company are teaming up on a function movie adaptation of the online game franchise “Shinobi,” the firms introduced on Tuesday. Sam Hargrave, the filmmaker behind Netflix’s “Extraction” movies, is hooked up to direct the “Shinobi” film from a screenplay by Ken Kobayashi (“Sunny”).
The “Shinobi” sequence first debuted in 1987 as an arcade sport and follows protagonist Joe Musashi as a modern-day ninja who confronts nice evil. The franchise spans 14 video games, together with spinoffs, and ports, with over 5 million copies bought worldwide. A brand new entry in the sequence was revealed in late 2023.
The movie comes on the heels of Universal’s online game adaptation success with “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” which grossed over $1.4 billion at the field workplace, and hit “Five Nights at Freddy’s” which made $290 million on a funds of simply $20 million. Universal can also be creating an adaptation of the online game “Ruiner” with “Planet of the Apes” director Wes Ball.
Hargrave received his begin as a stunt coordinator and actor earlier than turning into an in-demand second-unit director on movies like “Avengers: Infinity War” and “Deadpool 2.” He made his function directorial debut with the Chris Hemsworth-fronted Netflix movie “Extraction” in 2020 and returned to direct the sequel, which was launched in 2023.
Marc Platt and Adam Siegel will produce “Shinobi” by Marc Platt Productions. Dmitri M. Johnson will produce by Story Kitchen. Toru Nakahara will produce by SEGA. Mike Goldberg will government produce alongside Timothy I. Stevenson, who’s co-producing.
The final “Shinobi” title was launched in 2011 on Nintendo DS.
Hargrave is repped by WME and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher, LLP.
Kobayashi is repped by CAA, Redefine Leisure and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole LLP.
Marc Platt Productions is repped by Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris.
Story Kitchen is repped by WME and Pryor Cashman.
Toru Nakahara negotiated on behalf of SEGA.
Universal’s Senior Vice President of Manufacturing Growth Ryan Jones and Director of Manufacturing Growth Christine Solar will oversee the challenge for the Studio.
