Sony has huge Hollywood plans for its blockbuster game franchises. The PlayStation 5 maker announced a series of recent movie spin-offs this week at CES 2025, including movie versions Helldivers 2 AND Horizon Zero Dawnas well as an anime spin-off Ghost of Tsushima.
Horizon Zero Dawngame about fighting giant robot monsters that have taken over the Earth will be brought to the huge screen thanks to a partnership between PlayStation Productions and Columbia Pictures, Sony announced on stage during its press conference at CES on Monday. The Helldivers Meanwhile, the adaptation will be handled by Sony Pictures. None of them have an expected release date yet, which makes sense, at least for this year Helldivers‘ thing. A year ago, no one expected it to be such a huge hit.
Of course, Helldivers 2a militaristic parody of a futuristic fascist empire fighting alien invaders, it is already a movie in a sense. It’s called Spaceship soldiersPaul Verhoeven’s action comedy based on Robert Heinlein’s science-fiction novel. On the other hand, it wouldn’t be the first time Sony created a movie based on a game loosely inspired by another movie. It’s finally effective Uncharted there was an adaptation in which Tom Holland took on the role of Indiana Jones-style treasure hunter Nathan Drake.
Sony also revealed this Ghost of Tsushima will receive an anime series titled Legends. It is created for the Crunchyroll streaming service by Aniplex studio Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, directed by Takanobu Mizuno, known, among others, Star Wars: Visions – “Duel.” However, this is a long way off because Ghost of Tsushima: Legends The premiere is not scheduled for 2027. In the meantime, the continuation of the 2020 game, Yotei’s spiritwill be released on PS5 later this year.
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