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I hope you're not yet tired of the current avalanche of video game adaptations, because another fun-sounding one is on the way. Lionsgate has picked up the rights to make a movie, which is being written and produced by creator Derek Kolstad. Production companies dj2 Entertainment and Escape Artists, which are involved in the , are on board as well.
It was that Kolstad was working on a Streets of Rage movie. While the games don't exactly have a rich narrative to speak of, the beat-'em-up series fits right within Nobody writer Kolstad's oeuvre of gritty, violent action. The series seems ripe for the picking after a successful revival in 2020 with .
“When [dj2 CEO Dmitri M. Johnson] first mentioned the idea of cracking a Streets of Rage movie, I was so immediately freaking in,” Kolstad said in a statement, according to . “And to play with Sega? The 10-year-old me is still grinning.”
Lionsgate will also put out the Borderlands movie, which but doesn't yet have a release date. Among the many, many other and based on games that are in the works is a film, on which Chad Stahelski, the director of all four John Wick movies, is .
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It was that Kolstad was working on a Streets of Rage movie. While the games don't exactly have a rich narrative to speak of, the beat-'em-up series fits right within Nobody writer Kolstad's oeuvre of gritty, violent action. The series seems ripe for the picking after a successful revival in 2020 with .
“When [dj2 CEO Dmitri M. Johnson] first mentioned the idea of cracking a Streets of Rage movie, I was so immediately freaking in,” Kolstad said in a statement, according to . “And to play with Sega? The 10-year-old me is still grinning.”
Lionsgate will also put out the Borderlands movie, which but doesn't yet have a release date. Among the many, many other and based on games that are in the works is a film, on which Chad Stahelski, the director of all four John Wick movies, is .
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