Sony wants to make even more game adaptations

While Sony itself has had something of an up-and-down approach when it comes to video game adaptations in the past – not everything can be Last of us (free) or Uncharted (disparagingly)– the studio isn’t about to let its grip on the Playstation catalog loosen anytime soon. At CES this week, the studio announced a slew of new movies and TV series to bring several of its gaming franchises to life.

During its keynote press for the electronics event in Las Vegas last night, Sony revealed three new major projects between Playstation Studios and its various divisions – two films adapting the satirical sci-fi cooperative shooter Helldivers and Guerrilla’s post-apocalyptic robot dinosaur hunter Horizon: Zero Dawn (after art an attempt at a Netflix series fell apart), and a new anime via Crunchyroll and Aniplex adapting the multiplayer element of Sucker Punch’s open world samurai game, Ghost of Tsushima: Legendsanimated by Kamikaze Douga and slated for a 2027 release.

Little is known about the film projects – although much can be said for the circular nature of Sony that it possesses Starship Troopers film rights, essentially making a film adaptation of a game that asked “What if Starship Troopers was it a multiplayer shooter?’ to viral success last year–beyond the fact that they now exist. But they shouldn’t be surprising given Hollywood’s growing tendency to look to video games for source material and the success (after years of failure) of adaptations like Sonic movies or, as mentioned earlier, Sony’s own success with HBO on The last of us. And even less from the point of view of the modern Playstation exclusive library, which has for some time relied on narratives and aesthetics driven by a cinematic experience. Games became movies, and now games that became movies became movies that were games. did you understand

After years of distrust by default – something that perhaps still remains, even in the face of big and small successes– will Sony’s adaptive approach to its gaming franchises pay off in full? Time will tell, it will probably be a few more years before we see or hear anything more substantial about some of these projects. Plus, the studio already has high, scary expectations from its partnership with Nintendo to make Legend of Zelda movie looming on the horizon. Maybe worry about that first before we delve even deeper into the Playstation catalog.

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