Sony Reportedly Launches Marvel-Inspired Studio To Turn Games Into Movies, Shows

Taking a page from the Marvel playbook, Sony Interactive Entertainment is reportedly launching its own studio to take its video games to the movie and TV screen. From a report: PlayStation Productions is a new division of Sony Interactive Entertainment with the task of adapting PlayStation games into films and TV shows, The Hollywood Reporter reported Monday. Heading up the new studio will be Asad Qizilbash, who was vice president of marketing for Sony Interactive Entertainment of America, according to the report. Overseeing the studio will be Shawn Layden, chairman of SIE Worldwide Studios, The Hollywood Reporter said. [...] The new PlayStation Productions will reportedly work with Sony Pictures for distribution of the new batch of movies and TV shows.

Nope

[Anonymous Coward]

gonna be good watching them fail

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[Cipheron]

I'm guessing they believe they can crack the formula. It's hard, not impossible. Superhero comic movies were incredibly hit and miss until the MCU came along and came up with a formula for how to do it. It's hard to believe, but not impossible that someone comes up with a formula for passably converting action video games into movies.

Production Manager

[nitehawk214]

Uwe Boll

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[ffkom]

Uwe Boll

Only if his new restaurants don't run well - https://scoutmagazine.ca/2018/... [scoutmagazine.ca] - so quick, go there and eat the expensive stuff, in order to keep him from making another movie. (After all, that is probably the secret behind his success in gastronomy :-) )

just go

[AndyKron]

I'm just letting the world turn without me. I have no interest in this like anything.

Ring King

[xxxJonBoyxxx]

Just kidding. We all know it will be a Uwe Boll trilogy of 1.5-2-star God of War movies.

List of Sony games:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sony_Interactive_Entertainment_video_games

Yippee

[Vegan Cyclist]

"Yay - more videogame-based movies!"

- said no one ever

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[Deep Esophagus]

That's only because you haven't seen the trailer for my new epic blockbuster

• PONG
  Revenge of the Paddles

Good luck to them.

[HeckRuler]

Good luck to them. There are a lot of really good stories that most people don't want to spend ~40 hours sitting through. As long as they can cut through the layer of shit created by Super-Mario Brothers, Sonic, Double Dragon, BloodRayne, House of the Dead, Dead Or Alive, Postal, Hitman, Tekken, Doom, Alone in the Dark, Postal, Resident Evil (1 through wtf they keep making them!?), Mortal Combat, Silent Hill, Wing Commander, Final Fantasy, The not-quite Final Fantasy, Max Payne, Assasins Creed, Tomb Raider

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[Snotnose]

You really there is a 90 minute story in the Super Mario brothers games? You, my friend, are the problem.

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[gbjbaanb]

ahem. How could you forget Detective Pikachu?

(though, turns out its quite good, one reviewer said he was dreading reviewing it and looking forward to seeing Hustle (a woke, ghostbusters-style female-only version of an old movie). Reported back that Hustle was truly appalling, but D.Pikachu was like a child-friendly version of deadpool)

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[sg_oneill]

Dwarf fortress: Boatmurdered would probably makefor a better Game of Thrones than , well the last couple of seasons of Game of Thrones.

This time WITH war elephants!

(For anyone wondering what the fuck I'm talking about , set aside half an hour and google "Boatmurdered" and read. You can thank me later)

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[HeckRuler]

Welcome to fucking BOATMURDERED!

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[ChoGGi]

Why? Will you not be able to play dark souls if they make a shitty movie?

That's interesting

[Trimaz]

All this time I thought that's what Naughty Dog was already doing.

To be sold in one episode per loot box

[ffkom]

I guess you will have to rend these movies in 10 episodes only accessible via loot boxes. Buy one loot box for 1$, be surprised what episode is in it!

Infamous

[Kohath]

I think Infamous — the original Infamous 1 — could make a good TV show.

Defiance!

[Kwirl]

Part 2! so much potential

Only one worth doing isn't Sony's.

[sabbede]

I think we can all agree that the one game that would make for a truly great movie, hell the only one that it makes any sense to turn into a movie at all, is "Yar's Revenge".

Mutant space flies are box office GOLD!

Marvel-inspired?

[artemis67]

Boy does that sound like movie studio bullshit.

Does Sony have 80 years' worth of stories to pull from, featuring characters who routinely cross over into each others' storylines?

Uncharted please!

[Micah NC]

60% of the Uncharted games was making it to the cut scenes and the characters.