Way back in 2014 we reported that various Sega properties were being considered for TV and even movies. It sounds like these projects are one step closer to becoming a reality as two classic Sega properties - Altered Beast and Streets of Rage - have been added to the slate of Circle of Confusion (Fear The Walking Dead) and Stories International (The Life & Death of an iPhone).
These join other Sega adaptations such as Shinobi, The House Of The Dead, Crazy Taxi and Golden Axe which are already in the works. It appears to be early days however, with no news about writers, directors or release dates thus far.
The fact that these classic Sega franchises are all pretty much dormant having not had a significant video game release in years seems irrelevant. After all, we live in a world where a Battleship movie based on the classic board game costing $220 million was made... and generated a box office profit somehow!
Would you like to watch a Altered Beast movie, or do you think Streets of Rage might be the next hot Netflix show to binge watch? Perhaps you're just waiting for the Outrun feel good road-trip movie to come along? As always, share your thoughts with a comment below.
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Cool
Sweet.
I'd watch both
Cool
I'm waiting for Decap-Attack.
Weird but potentially cool.
The dignity of humanity plummets further still.
What have we become.
YEY ALTERED BEAST!!! erm, movie? its just going to be yet another werewolf film which will flop
No, no ,and no. Forget the movies. Make us some games. I love both of those and don't want a movie to ruin them up.
The House of the Dead movies were utter garbage and had nothing to do with the game series. Sega would be wise to get out of the film business before they make a mockery out of their own IPs and we already had a crazy taxi movie called "Taxi" starring Queen Latifah. The only game I believe they could make a good movie about is Shenmue, all they had to do is hired this guy for the role of Ryo Hazuki.
(Hiroyuki Sanada)
Nope. Still don't want them.
Aw heck yeah! I've been waiting for a Streets of Rage movie for a log while! And who knows! Maybe the success of these movies will convince SEGA to revive Streets of Rage.
Oh and everyone who assumes that video games can never make good films, we're never going to find out how to make good video game movies if we don't try. Maybe we need to make them the same way we make movies based on songs and poems (Little known fact: The classic film The Nightmare Before Christmas was based on a poem.)
The House of the Dead was already done...the first was completely cheesy and the sequel was even worse, so why would someone even want to pick it back up for a reboot? Other than that, Crazy Taxi seems like a waste, and I couldn't even imagine how that game would work out as a movie, Altered beast would be too much CGI for a film and Streets Of Rage would probably be as bad as Double Dragon or Street Fighter was...oh wait, no matter what they will fail, as there's barely any game to movie that does good (however, Mortal Kombat did when it first came out...looks horrible now and Silent Hill didn't do that bad...and for some reason, I enjoyed the Super Mario Bros film). With Sonic and the original Mario cartoons that did fairly well, why don't they just turn them into cartoons and let them go from there...Rabbids Invasion is doing very well as a cartoon.
Hey I really like Sega so no complaint from me but out of curiosity does this site now include news on Sega as well as Nintendo? My apologies if this has been asked 100 times before.
I'd rather a Streets of Rage 4 game, but this'll be interesting to see how it develops.
@JLPick well the house of the dead games were so cheesy they attracted mice every time I played them, they made the original resident evil 1 sound Shakespeareian.
A streets of rage movie? like a mix between the warriors and lethal weapon or something?
Cool.
Forget about directors, writers, or release dates for now. Just tell us who will play Blaze.
hey SEGA. if, the Altered Beast movie/tv series does better, can we have a good sequel to it? plz
Shinobi could work as a movie, but Golden Axe and Altered Beast?! Guaranteed to be complete flops.
A feature length anime would be the FAR superior option in both cases. Video game-based movies nearly always suck.
@eLarkos The games in question here, Altered Beast and Streets of Rage, were both released on Wii VC and 3D Classics on 3DS. That makes it relevant to report on.
As for when Sega news pops up, Sega is a third party that publishes software on Nintendo Hardware, and you'll see that NintendoLife reports on those third parties because of their connection to Nintendo, but it needs to usually relate to Nintendo.
For instance, since Sonic Mania has been announced, I believe NintendoLife did 1 article on it, and if they didn't, then it was included in the recap of Sonic's 25th Anniversary Stream. They have not reported on further Sonic Mania news because as of this moment, the game is not confirmed to be in development for any Nintendo Console, or Handheld.
Sega Sammy, you've been making some logical moves lately, but unfortunately, this isn't one of them...
You're all waiting for Super Monkey Ball the movie- admit it.
Of course, there's always Fantasy Zone (and the spinoff FZ The Maze!)...
If Hollywood must, Hollywood must. I'm totally neutral on the subject. Maybe they'll be good, maybe they won't. Either way, I won't lose sleep.
I believe the correct phrase for the headline descriptor is, "Wyse fwom yoh kouch!" Anyone got a GIF of someone breaking out of a coffin laid on a couch, after being struck by lightning?
@BionicDodo What do you mean? There's plenty enough of an audience for another Xena type of heroine movie for Golden Axe, with a dwarf sidekick and mysterious Conan clone. And the Altered Beast movie could be a nice homage to 80's movies, while unintentionally drawing in the furry crowd.
Streets of Rage in particular could be very popular, with all the police and crime fighting shows running these days. It could offer a sort of different take on dealing with a "terrorist" takeover scenario, with a dash of politics, and the potential of nukes being launched. Streets of Rage 3 in particular is the most ripe for this. And of course, Roo would be an audience favorite side character.
Altered Beast movie comes on the TV and I be like
'POWER OFF'
Could be cool if they manage to pull this off right, but I'd still rather have a new Streets of Rage game.
One part of me wants to cheer. The other part wants to laugh.
Alternatively, Sega cooould just give us a new Streets of Rage game. Hey what about Splatterhouse?
@retro_player_22 Sweet, I could see that!
STREETS OF RAGE: THE MOVIE - Bunch of martial arts guys beating street thugs up outside a house music concert
ALTERED BEAST: THE MOVIE - Live footage of an actual dumpster fire
As long as the music is still by yuzo koshiro I'm in
Will Yuzo Koshiro do the music?!
@retro_player_22 For me I really like Queen Latifah as an actress though but I understand that movie can't possibly equal to the greatness of the game (but I admit I pretty much laughed a lot watching it, I'm a simpleton)
@khululy I read somewhere, where the house of the dead games were meant to be cheesy. The movie, however, could have been better, but the video-game scenes were making it horrible to sit through. The worst acting I've seen is Night Trap on Sega...that was horrible B-rated acting!!!!
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