SEGA has confirmed that the next game that will be getting the movie treatment will be Shinobi, which has been a dormant franchise since 2011. Shinobi follows the ninja Joe Musashi and the first game of the series released in arcades in 1987 with a home release following in 1988. Following on from that were a number of sequels and spin offs, with the last Shinobi game releasing in 2011 for the Nintendo 3DS. A new Shinobi game has been announced, but there are no details of what to expect with that.
The Shinobi movie is going to be directed by Sam Hargrave, who is most well known for directing Extraction and Extraction 2. He has also been a stunt and fight co-ordinator in a lot of blockbusters including some MCU movies like Avengers: Endgame, as well as Atomic Blonde. Ken Kobayashi has been called in to write the Shinobi screenplay, and his credits include Marvel’s Hit-Monkey and Sunny.
In our last Shinobi review, Dan said, “I’m aware that some of the cons come across as me being a bit of a whining baby. However, if Shinobi was designed so that every death was your fault I would be more than happy to plough on, honing my skills.As it stands though most deaths are caused by some cheap, annoying sequence of events like the one I described earlier, and when this is coupled with a control scheme that never feels right it drags a decent game down to something that feels totally average.”
Source: Deadline
