Sega is making a Shinobi movie from the Extraction director
Oct. 8, 2024The Shinobi movie is being directed by Sam Hargrave
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Sega’s classic hack-and-slash video game series Shinobi is being turned into a movie, and the director behind Extraction and Extraction 2 is making it.
Ken Kobayashi (Sunny, Move On) is adapting the screenplay for Shinobi.
The Shinobi series has featured a number of protagonists through its long history, but its flagship hero is the one that starred in the first five games, Joe Musashi, a member of the Oboro ninja clan. Neither Sega nor Universal have revealed specific plot details, but it sounds like it’ll indeed focus on Joe Musashi confronting a “great evil”, according to the press release.
In the original game, Musashi’s tranquil mountain life is thrown into chaos when the ninja crime syndicate Zeed rises to power and tries to take Japan back to the Sengoku period of Japan when the country was gripped by civil war and ninjas thrived.
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