Hollywood has developed through the years. We’ve seen IPs get picked up and tailored from novels to comedian books. Nonetheless, it wasn’t till just lately that we noticed a brand new growth. New motion pictures and tv sequence are getting made out of video video games. These unimaginable artworks are lastly getting an opportunity to bask within the limelight beneath a special leisure medium. Whereas a few of these initiatives are simply being picked up, it wasn’t at all times the case. In actual fact, one IP that was pitched to Hollywood was a Crash Bandicoot film.
We wouldn’t be stunned to see extra online game IPs get picked up and showcased to the lots through a brand new movie or tv sequence. Increasingly more are getting tailored and discovering a brand new surge of fandom. Nonetheless, the present CEO of Sega of America, Shuji Utsumi, just lately spoke about his film try years in the past.
Talking to The Game Business, Shuji talked about that at one level early in his profession at Sony, he introduced the Crash Bandicoot IP to Hollywood. They hoped that the IP was fascinating sufficient to warrant a film adaptation. Nonetheless, on the time, it was unveiled that Hollywood’s view of the online game enterprise was nothing greater than a toy enterprise.
After I began to become involved within the online game enterprise, I picked up Crash Bandicoot and began asking a number of the film studios in the event that they had been desirous about turning that property right into a film. But I used to be handled like… ‘hey, video video games is sort of a toy enterprise’. They didn’t actually take it critically.
Hollywood wasn’t able to take video video games critically. That was then, and now we’re seeing a polar reverse view. In actual fact, Shuji is aware of simply how properly video video games can do within the film enterprise now that he’s at Sega. In spite of everything, we noticed a large hit with the Sonic the Hedgehog movies. Identical to different franchises that at the moment are highlighted in Hollywood, there’s often a surge of curiosity within the online game franchise.
Whereas Hollywood is now adapting these movies and tv sequence primarily based on video video games, it’s unsure whether or not Crash Bandicoot would obtain the same therapy. Proper now, it’s beneath the management of Microsoft. So it should in the end rely on whether or not Microsoft is desirous about pursuing a Crash Bandicoot film.
