EXCLUSIVE: With Minecraft proudly owning the field workplace over the previous month and HBO’s hit sequence The Final Of Us returning with a bang, Common is wanting so as to add one other online game adaptation to its slate with the assistance of two very massive superstars. Sources inform Deadline Common Photos is creating a function adaptation of Sega’s iconic arcade driving online game OutRun with Michael Bay connected to direct and Sydney Sweeney aboard to supply. Jayson Rothwell will pen the script.
Bay will even produce alongside companion Brad Fuller by means of their Platinum Dunes’ banner, which has a primary look cope with the studio. The challenge is in improvement, and as of proper now, Sweeney is simply on board to supply. Toru Nakahara (Sonic the Hedgehog 1~3, Knuckles, Golden Axe) will even produce for SEGA and Shuji Utsumi (President/COO of Sega Company) will oversee the challenge on behalf of Sega.
Plot particulars on what the movie might be about are imprecise. Sega’s OutRun sequence is a franchise that originated from a number of the most profitable arcade video games on the earth through the Eighties. The sport pioneered a brand new style of driving video games and spawned a whole digital music subgenre aptly known as “OutRun.” This distinctive method made it a worldwide hit. Since then, quite a few sequence installments have been launched, together with house console variations, and it continues to be one in all Sega’s flagship franchises.
Whereas the business is having a second with online game diversifications, Common isn’t any stranger to adapting hit video video games into hit films. OutRun follows Common Photos’ online game adaptation success with The Tremendous Mario Bros. Film and 5 Nights at Freddy’s, which grossed over $1.4B and $290M respectively within the international field workplace.
Sweeney could also be one of many cities busier stars on the appearing entrance however over the previous yr she has additionally gotten very lively on the manufacturing entrance as nicely. She not too long ago produced and starred in her Neon horror pic Immaculate and can be a producer on the Christy Martin biopic wherein she additionally stars.
Bay, Fuller and Platinum Dunes have additionally been busy over the previous yr which has included a brand new a Quiet Place film, A Quiet Place: Day One. In addition they not too long ago produced the thriller Drop alongside Blumhouse.
Rothwell’s current credit embody Polar and Arachnid.
Bay is represented by Vary Media Companions. Sweeney is represented by Paradigm and Stewart Brookman at Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, et al. Rothwell is represented by Cliff Roberts at Syndicate Leisure, and Austin Williams at Sloan Supply Weber & Dern.
