Sony’s PlayStation Productions movie and tv enterprise continues to ramp up, as a movie primarily based on the 2012 PlayStation Vita sport Gravity Rush is within the works over at PlayStation Productions and Scott Free Productions, with a author and director already hooked up.
In response to Deadline, the difference is being directed by Anna Mastro (Secret Society of Second Born Royals) and written by Emily Jerome (Panopticon). Nonetheless, the movie’s producers, distributor, and launch window have all not been revealed simply but. For these unfamiliar with the Japanese PlayStation franchise, Gravity Rush follows a younger lady named Kat with gravity-manipulating powers, who wakes up with amnesia in a metropolis referred to as Hekseville and has to defend it from a gaggle of monsters referred to as the Nevi. Gravity Rush was first launched in 2012 for PlayStation Vita and was later ported to PlayStation 4 as a remaster. Gravity Rush 2 was launched on PlayStation 4 in 2017.
EXCLUSIVE: PlayStation Productions and Scott Free Productions have launched growth on ‘Gravity Rush’—a movie primarily based on the 2012 action-adventure online game of the identical identify, which Anna Mastro is hooked up to direct from a script by Emily Jerome https://t.co/RmE8qUF0j2
— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) August 22, 2022
Whereas particulars on the undertaking as nonetheless pretty gentle, Gravity Rush is an fascinating option to adapt to movie as it’s completely different from the extra reasonable PlayStation franchises that PlayStation Productions has tailored up to now. Gravity Rush definitely leans into the extra Japanese and anime sensibilities than properties like Uncharted and The Final of Us, the previous of which noticed a theatrical film launch earlier this yr and the latter of which is able to obtain an HBO TV present subsequent yr. This announcement and the Uncharted director’s teasing of a Jak and Daxter movie point out that Sony isn’t afraid of adapting its extra cartoonish franchises.
Sony’s movie and film diversifications often coincide with sport releases, akin to the discharge of the Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Assortment alongside the Uncharted film, in addition to The Final of Us Half 1 remake and the sport’s HBO present adaptation. Hopefully, which means a remaster, remake, or third entry within the Gravity Rush franchise could possibly be a future risk regardless of its developer, Japan Studio, having been shut down final yr. That stated, nothing with reference to that has been introduced presently.
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