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Sony Interactive Launches Unit to Adapt Games for Film, TV
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So this is under SIE and not Sony Pictures? I wonder if Tom Rothman will still have veto power over anything that they try to get off the ground, since I can't imagine them putting out movies under any other studio, and he already killed the adaptation of TLoU stone dead.
Makes sense - not only because of Sony's film/tv business, but if successful, it could be a useful tool for cutting game deals with game makers who have ambitions on creating cross media IP. If Sony can be a good partner on both fronts, it would be a nice advantage for them in attracting content and deals. 'Come make your game for us, and hey, we'll help you make a movie/show with it too'. It was the promise of internal Sony collaboration that hasn't happened to date, but maybe this will be the start.
But it would be key for them to develop a quality reputation, so there is a cachet for creators going to Sony, and knowing their reputation and property is in good hands.
But it would be key for them to develop a quality reputation, so there is a cachet for creators going to Sony, and knowing their reputation and property is in good hands.
This sounds like a retooled "Playstation Originals" (company that produces original tv series and movies if you are curious). Hopefully this would work better after the Ratchet and Clank movie bombed.
I would love to see them do animated LocoRoco shorts or a TV series, it has so much potential.
I would love to see them do animated LocoRoco shorts or a TV series, it has so much potential.
There was a label called Playstation Originals that acted as a production company, but I don't think it amounted to anything other than reminding viewers that it's a Sony IP, as Sony didn't even distribute the film.
Amusingly, the R&C movie was the last thing that Gramercy put out before being dissolved and rolled back into Focus Features.
This actually excites me. PLEASE give me a movie or series set in the HZD universe, it's just too amazing and beautiful not to.
Hope they really think about TV more than movies. Let your IP breathe with a lower expectations on how good it will be. A bloodborne mini series sounds like a right move to make to me. Not much like that in the tv space anyway.
Sly the animated series.
Sly and friends commit different robberies every episode.
To go with this, give me Sly 5 please.
Sly and friends commit different robberies every episode.
To go with this, give me Sly 5 please.
"PlayStation movies and series, exclusive to PS+ users". That's a good way to keep those high membership numbers.
"Just when you were about to lose hope of the franchise ever returning...."
"Syphon Filter 4: the (Netflix)(Prime)(Hulu) original "
"Syphon Filter 4: the (Netflix)(Prime)(Hulu) original "
That's rather pointedly specific. I kinda wonder how that would play, though: start back in Greece and then eventually work their way to where we're at now, or have it start in Midgard and fill out the backstory with flashbacks to his previous exploits?
Yeah, putting these on PS+ adds that extra value that it's currently lacking.
After Ratchet and Clank bombed the way it did I didn't expect this. Good luck to them, I hope what happened to Square Soft doesn't happen to SIE.
PlayStation Now would also make a lot of sense, PS+ would immediately lock them behind the purchase of a console which doesn't sound too smart to me.
Was Powers the only one of these they've done? i was actually trying to watch it but couldn't figure out how lol.
More like a silly move that would limit the audience that content could reach.
I feel like Bloodborne would make for a great anthology series, since you can cover the entirety of the lore and get around the pesky issue of there not being a protagonist in a traditional sense. One episode about the battle between the Executioners and the Vilebloods, another about the tragic legacy of the Vicars, everything to do with Byrgenwerth, etc. There's a ton of material there.
