As Sega’s boss talks about turning extra of its outdated video games into motion pictures following Sonic’s success, we’ve give you just a few not-entirely-serious ideas of our personal.
You’ll in all probability have completely different reminiscences of Sega relying in your age. If you’re extremely historical, like a few of us, you could bear in mind its early 80s arcade hits and consoles just like the Sega Master System and Super Hang-On. If you’re much less outdated, maybe you have got dim recollections of the criminally underrated Dreamcast – Sega’s ahead-of-its-time console that marked the tip of its tenure within the {hardware} market. If you’re annoyingly younger, perhaps you simply consider Sega as the corporate that makes these Sonic The Hedgehog video games and movies.
The level is, Sega has been going for over 60 years now, and has an enormous again catalogue of video games (or ‘mental properties’ as enterprise varieties wish to name them) to fall again on. Sega boss Shuji Utsumi has famous this himself in a latest interview with CNBC, through which he talked about all of the methods Sega may leverage its video games and franchises in ways in which mimicked the success of the Sonic The Hedgehog motion pictures.
Admittedly, Utsumi wasn’t simply speaking about movies – he’s additionally eager to do extra stuff like having characters seem in locations children are congregating today, like Sonic’s official Roblox sport from final 12 months. Also, it’s extra possible that Sega will think about its different latest successes, together with the Like A Dragon collection of video games (as soon as referred to as Yakuza), Persona, and the recently-acquired Angry Birds.
This is our listing, although, and so far as we’re involved, there’s a strong argument that Sega ought to pump hundreds of thousands of {dollars} into producing movie diversifications of its extra obscure Nineteen Eighties and 90s output. Needless to say, these diversifications ought to be made with solely the best filmmakers and actors the planet has to supply.
With this in thoughts, right here’s our not-entirely-serious listing of ideas:
Flicky
Director: Pete Docter
Stars: Meryl Streep, Jake Gyllenhaal
Synopsis: Based on Sega’s 1984 arcade sport of the identical identify, the CG-animated Flicky sees the titular mom chook (Streep) try and rescue her brood of chicks from a number of flooring of a surreal house constructing stuffed with hungry cats and, unaccountably, iguanas (all performed by Gyllenhaal). Flicky the mom chook learns some priceless life classes alongside the way in which. We’ve pitched it to Pixar as The Raid meets It’s A Wonderful Life.
Chances of taking place: We accosted Pete Docter in a San Francisco automobile park and he threatened to name the police.
Golden Axe
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Stars: Jason Momoa, Gal Gadot, Peter Dinklage, Chris Hemsworth
Synopsis: Three unlikely heroes – Ax-Battler (Momoa), Tyris Flare (Gadot) and Gilius Thunderhead (Hemsworth) – staff as much as save the legendary land of Yuria from the evil Death Adder (Dinklage) in a excessive fantasy epic. Will be elegantly shot by Villeneuve as a two-part saga, with the primary half concluding with our heroes gathered round a campfire, boosting their power by beating a bunch of innocent elves to demise.
Chances of taking place: Villeneuve has mentioned he’ll do it if we please simply cease hanging round close to his driveway.
Afterburner
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Stars: Tom Cruise
Synopsis: After greater than thirty years of service, a prime pilot (Cruise) finds himself coaching a detachment of rookie aviators for a specialised mission the likes of which no residing pilot has ever seen. All similarities to Top Gun: Maverick are fully coincidental.
Chances of taking place: We’ve already had a cease-and-desist letter from Paramount’s legal professionals, so not excessive.
Alex Kidd
Director: Paul Schrader
Stars: Adam Driver
Synopsis: Once a console-selling superstar and Sega mascot, Alex Kidd (Driver) now lives alone in a rundown a part of New York. Making ends meet as an Uber driver, Kidd cuts a lonely determine – not less than till he meets one other out-of-work Sega star, Opa-Opa (Robert De Niro) who factors out that the now insanely rich Sonic the Hedgehog has a vacation dwelling within the Hamptons. Horrendous violence ultimately ensues.
Chances of taking place: We’re ready for Mr Schrader to just accept our good friend request on Facebook. More on this because it develops.
Space Harrier
Director: James Cameron
Stars: Sam Worthington
Synopsis: Following a harrowing automobile crash, door-to-door encyclopedia salesman Jim ‘Space’ Harrier (Worthington) wakes up within the mysterious Fantasy Zone. Hearing a mysterious voice cry out, “Get prepared,” the hapless Jim is swept by a seemingly infinite wasteland, his solely alternative being to shoot a military of unfamiliar beings within the hope of discovering a way of escape. Will be filmed utilizing the glasses-free 3D expertise James Cameron promised us for Avatar 2 however didn’t ship. A motion-captured Sigourney Weaver makes a cameo as a one-eyed woolly mammoth.
Chances of taking place: Cameron’s folks have advised us he’ll be getting proper onto Space Harrier as soon as he’s completed with the Avatar franchise in 2097.
Shinobi
Director: Zack Snyder
Stars: Hiroyuki Sanada
Synopsis: Seasoned ninja Joe Musashi (Sanada) comes out of retirement to rescue some kidnapped kids from an evil legal organisation. An uncredited Ana de Armas cameos because the face of Marilyn Monroe on some posters within the background for some purpose.
Chances of taking place: We’ve all of a sudden realised that we genuinely wish to see this one occur. Unfortunately, Snyder can’t promise us that he received’t shoot all the factor in slow-motion.
Streets Of Rage
Director: Derek Kolstad
Stars: Glen Powell, Ana de Armas, Michael B Jordan.
Synopsis: Tough younger cops Axel Stone (Powell), Blaze Fielding (de Armas) and Adam Hunter (Jordan) struggle a metropolis’s legal underbelly the one approach they understand how – with their naked knuckles. All joking apart, this one does really sound prefer it’s taking place, with Kolstad (creator of John Wick and author of Bob Odenkirk beat-’em-up, Nobody) mentioned to be adapting the 90s brawler final 12 months. There’s no phrase on the solid but – we made that bit up. Nor do we all know whether or not the heroes will eat roast chickens hidden in bins, in time-honoured Streets Of Rage model.
Chances of taking place: Probably much more possible than the rest on this listing.
Out Run
Director: Lynne Ramsey
Stars: Barry Keoghan, Emma Roberts
Synopsis: At the behest of a heartless film mogul (Dave Zaslav, cameoing as himself), younger gopher Geoff (Keoghan) is tasked with driving a model new Ferrari from New York to Los Angeles in lower than 36 hours – with out being caught rushing. Or crashing. Roberts stars as a casting director alongside for the journey who, curiously, doesn’t say a single phrase to Geoff for all the journey. Script by Steve Zaillian.
Chances of taking place: Zaslav has advised us he’ll bankroll it, however can’t promise he received’t delete it from the studio onerous drives afterwards.
