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Streets of Rage: the movie based on the video game is coming
Streets of Rage is coming, a film dedicated to the historic SEGA video game of the 90s and which John Wick creator Derek Kolstad will take care of.
Streets of Rage is certainly one of the cult video games of the 90s, which is about to be adapted into a film by Lionsgate and by the screenwriter of the saga with Keanu Reeves.
Movies based on popular video games are a growing trend. To the list is now added Streets of Rage, with the famous fighting game from SEGA which will be adapted into a feature film for the cinema.
A news that will certainly please all fans of a cult game from the 90s, with the Lionsgate project which will be mainly carried by Derek Kolstad, known for being the screenwriter of the famous John Wick saga with Keanu Reeves, of which a fourth chapter will be released soon. .
Streets of Rage: the birth of the project
To produce the adaptation of the video game, it will be the same production houses of the recent Sonic 2, or Escape Artists and dj2 Entertainment. An idea carried with conviction following the success of this film, with the writing of Streets of Rage which will be entrusted to Derek Kolstad as mentioned.
The latter, who has always been a big fan of the video game saga, has already written a script. Here are his words on this subject: “The idea of making a film on Streets of Rage immediately grabbed me. The me of when I was 10 years old is overjoyed”. Further details on the work on the film are not known at this time, but everything appears to be well underway.
The screenwriter, pending John Wick 4 which will hit theaters from March 2023, recently worked as co-executive producer of the Disney+ Marvel series Falcon & The Winter Soldier, while his colleague Chad Stahelski is instead at work on adaptation. from another famous video game of recent years like Ghost of Tsushima.
The video game: in 2020 the fourth chapter
Regarding the field of video games, Streets of Rage marked the history of fighting games. Developed by SEGA, the video game was first released in 1991 on the Genesis console. Along with other titles such as Double Dragon and Final Fight, it is unanimously considered one of the most representative examples of this genre. The protagonists of Streets of Rage, Axel, Adam and Blaze, three police officers determined to defend their city against the actions of a dangerous criminal gang led by Mr. Big.
After its debut, several sequels have emerged across many platforms including Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4, and Xbox One, with what is now the fourth and final chapter releasing in 2020.
Films based on video games: the most famous examples
Over the years, there have been many movies based on video games, although many of them unfortunately turned out to be real flops. But for so many negative examples, there are also plenty of other positives, with some films ending up with considerable public success.
Just think, for example, of Rampage – Animal Fury, an arcade video game born in 1986 starring giant monsters and brought to the big screen in 2018 by director Brad Peyton, in a film starring Dwayne Johnson . Another prominent case is Monster Hunter: Resident Evil director Paul WS Anderson and Milla Jovovich bring to life a film beloved for its infographics and action scenes.
Moving on to horror, it is impossible not to mention Silent Hill, among the most significant titles of the entire genre and transposed to cinematic level by Christophe Gans, while returning to the famous fighting game is Mortal Kombat, with adaptations of the famous saga published as early as 1995 before the last successful chapter to be released in theaters in 2021.