Sega and Universal have announced that they're working on a movie based on ninja platformer series Shinobi, and the project has already scored a director and writer.
Per an IGN report, the Shinobi movie will be directed by Extraction helmsman Sam Hargrave, who's also a stuntman himself, although it's not clear whether he'll be providing any stunts for this movie.
Writing duties on the project will be handled by Ken Kobayashi, who's worked as a writer on the likes of Marvel's Hit-Monkey and the Apple TV+ show Sunny.
Right now, details about the project are thin on the ground; we don't know if it'll serve as an adaptation of a particular Shinobi game or base itself on an amalgamation of the series as a whole.
Casting for the movie also hasn't been announced, so we don't know who's playing series lead Joe Musashi (if, indeed, the movie features him as its protagonist; it could just as easily tell the story of Hotsuma, the main character of the 2002 Shinobi reboot).
As announced during the Game Awards last year, Shinobi is one of the IPs Sega is planning to revive in the coming years, along with Jet Set Radio, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage, and Crazy...
