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From: YourName@YourISP.com

The number of good movies / TV shows adapted from games can probably be
counted on the fingers of one foot. I doubt this will make them any
better. :-\


From ComingSoon.net ...


PlayStation Productions launched by Sony
to adapt video games for film & TV
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The Hollywood Reporter brings word that PlayStation Productions
has been launched by Sony Interactive Entertainment to adapt the
company's video game catalog, consisting of over 100 titles, for
film and television projects.

The production studio will be headed by Asad Qizilbash with
Shawn Layden, chairman of Worldwide Studios at SIE, overseeing.
Production has already begun on the new studio's first set of
projects.

"We've got 25 years of game development experience and that's
created 25 years of great games, franchises, and stories,"
Layden told the outlet. "We feel that now is a good time to
look at other media opportunities across streaming or film or
television to give our worlds life in another spectrum."

The chairman also added that they are learning from adaptations
of the past to figure out what worked and what didn't: "You can
see just by watching older video game adaptations that the
screenwriter or director didn't understand that world or the
gaming thing. The real challenge is, how do you take 80 hours
of gameplay and make it into a movie? The answer is, you don't.
What you do is you take that ethos you write from there
specifically for the film audience. You don't try to retell
the game in a movie."

Sony's original game titles include a blend of genres, including
adventure, sci-fi, action, mystery, and horror, giving the
company room to play with a variety of potential content they
can develop for the big and small screen. Sony Pictures will
help with distribution, with production handled firsthand by
PlayStation Productions.

"For the last year and a half, two years, we've spent time
trying to understand the industry, talking to writers,
directors, producers," said Qizilbash. "We talked to [film
producer] Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Kevin Feige to really get
an understanding of the industry."

Qizilbash added that the story of each game title will determine
whether the adaptation will focus on film or television.
Partnering with Sony Pictures will allow the studio the time to
make the projects that they hope will live up to the quality of
their video games. Layden and Qizilbash commented that they have
no intention to "rush the market," that they are more concerned
with the quality of each adaptation. The duo hopes their passion
project will lead to PlayStation Productions becoming the first
studio to take video game titles and produce something  "lasting
and meaningful in a completely different medium."


<https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/1069197-playstation-productions-sony>

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