Sega To Adapt Classic Video Games For Film And TV

In what is sure to be exciting news for anyone old enough to remember the glory days of Sega consoles, it is has been announced that Sega are planning big steps into movies and television.

Variety reports that the video game publisher - once Nintendo’s biggest rival, manufacturing the Master System, Megadrive and Genesis - are planning both live action and animated adaptations of some of their best-loved games, under their Stories International platform.

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The first games lined up for potential movies and TV shows include - braces yourselves, nostalgia fans - “Altered Beast,” “Streets of Rage,” “Shinobi,” “Rise of Nightmares” and “Crazy Taxi,” with “Virtua Fighter” and “Golden Axe” also on the cards.

There is no indication yet as to which property is lined up for which medium (live action/animated, movies/TV), but apparently these will all be English language productions.

To this end, Sega have hired executive producer Evan Cholfin as their head of development and production in the Tokyo-based venture.

Tomoya Suzuki, president/CEO of Stories International, says the plan is “to revitalize and canonize our partners’ brands [i.e. Sega] by working with Hollywood to create stories that will last for centuries.”

Hollywood has notoriously had a somewhat rocky relationship with video games over the years, with such 1990s productions as ‘Super Mario Bros,’ ‘Double Dragon’ and ‘Street Fighter’ meeting a tepid response from audiences and critics.

But in the years since, ‘Resident Evil’ has spawned a massively successful film franchise, a ‘Warcraft’ movie is in production, and such high profile games as ‘Uncharted’ and ‘Assassin’s Creed’ have big screen adaptations in the works.

A ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ movie is also reported to be in development, from producer Neal Moritz (‘The Fast and the Furious’ series).

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