Extraction director Sam Hargrave is ready to direct a Shinobi film for Common primarily based on the Sega online game franchise.
Common Footage has tapped Extraction director Sam Hargrave to helm Shinobi, a film adaptation of the online game franchise created by Sega.
Plot particulars are being saved beneath wraps, however the unique Shinobi sport featured Joe Musashi as a modern-day ninja who confronts nice evil. Ken Kobayashi (Sunny) is writing the script for the Shinobi film, which shall be produced by Marc Platt and Adam Siegel by Marc Platt Manufacturing. Dmitri M. Johnson will produce by Story Kitchen, with Toru Nakahara producing by Sega. Mike Goldberg will govt produce alongside co-producer Timothy I. Stevenson.
The unique Shinobi arcade sport was launched in 1987. The franchise has grown to incorporate over a dozen video games, with the newest introduced eventually 12 months’s Sport Awards. Common already has a few profitable online game films beneath its belt, together with The Tremendous Mario Bros. Film (which grossed $1.35 billion) and 5 Nights at Freddy’s (which grossed $297 million). The studio is transferring ahead with sequels to each movies.
Sam Hargrave has a few tasks within the works. He’s set to direct Matchbox, a live-action film from Skydance and Mattel Movies primarily based on the enduring toy model. John Cena will star within the undertaking, with David Coggeshall and Jonathan Tropper penning the script.
He will even direct an adaptation of Kyle M. Stark’s graphic novel Kill Them All, which follows an “elite feminine murderer, who, after discovering out she goes to be ‘terminated’ by the prison syndicate she’s been loyal to, decides to take them out first. Becoming a member of forces with a hard-drinking ex-cop, she embarks on a relentless action-packed assault by the 15 flooring of the Syndicate’s Headquarters. Her final goal is the Boss, with whom she has an advanced previous.“
There’s additionally one other Extraction sequel in growth at Netflix with Hargrave returning alongside sequence star Chris Hemsworth. The actor has beforehand teased that he already has an thought of the place Extraction 3 can go. “There is so much room for this franchise to expand and places where it can go,” Hemsworth mentioned. “I’m enthusiastic about what that subsequent journey for Tyler Rake may very well be. We’ll see how this one does. We’ll see how individuals really feel and reply. And if the world is craving one other Tyler Rake journey, I feel it’d be one thing I’d be fascinated about seeing put up on display screen.’ He grins. ‘I have an idea, but I won’t give it away right here…“
