PlayStation to adapt their IPs into film and TV through newly formed PlayStation Productions studio

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Good video game movies are a hard commodity to come by, with most film adaptations of beloved game franchises having a tendency to fall into mediocrity, or be remembered purely for being terrible. PlayStation is looking to change that, however, with the formation of a new production studio that will be dedicated to bringing their IPs to both TV and film. Called PlayStation Productions, the division will be led by Asad Qizilbash, with Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Shawn Layden overseeing all projects.

Shawn Layden said:
We’ve got 25 years of game development experience and that’s created 25 years of great games, franchises and stories. We feel that now is a good time to look at other media opportunities across streaming or film or television to give our worlds life in another spectrum.

Stating that PlayStation was tired of licensing out their IPs to other film studios, Qzilbash claims that his team will be better prepared to create movies and shows based off gaming franchises, as they are familiar with the properties, and know "what the PlayStation community loves". Sony Pictures will be funding these projects, though they will have no hand in creating them, with Layden stressing the fact that PlayStation Productions will have the money to take their time, hire the most suitable casts, and won't have to rush out any movies to meet strict deadlines.

Shawn Layden said:
We want to create an opportunity for fans of our games to have more touch points with our franchises. When fans beat a 40-50 hour game and have to wait three-four years for a sequel, we want to give them places they can go and still have more of that experience and see the characters they love evolve in different ways. This is a passion project for me [...] to be the first gaming entity to do something lasting and meaningful in a completely different medium is something I’d like to see us achieve here at PlayStation Productions.

You can see just by watching older video game adaptations that the screenwriter or director didn’t understand that world or the gaming thing. The real challenge is, how do you take 80 hours of gameplay and make it into a movie? The answer is, you don’t. What you do is you take that ethos you write from there specifically for the film audience. You don’t try to retell the game in a movie.

Time will tell if this venture will be a successful one for PlayStation, as the team appears to value taking things slow. PlayStation Productions seems to have the right mindset, but do you think they can pull off creating good TV shows and movies for their game franchises?

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That the Mario movie was made in 1993 and both of the films I mentioned were made in 2015 and 2016 respectively.
and like i said, when Nintendo anounced they were gonna make movies again everybody was being overly positive despite them having NO experience these last years and having made a shitty movie and show so why is everybody jumping on the '' Oh Sony is gonna make a shitload of bad movies despite them having tons more experience than Nintendo '' Double standars, that's all
 

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and like i said, when Nintendo anounced they were gonna make movies again everybody was being overly positive despite them having NO experience these last years and having made a shitty movie and show so why is everybody jumping on the '' Oh Sony is gonna make a shitload of bad movies despite them having tons more experience than Nintendo '' Double standars, that's all
I'm not defending Nintendo on collaborating with illuminations. I still think that movie will still be mediocre at best. But I still stand by the fact that every attempt Sony has made at a videogame movie has been awful.

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They also made into the spider-verse.

So they have potential.
That's completely unrelated and it's a different division.
 

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I'm not defending Nintendo on collaborating with illuminations. I still think that movie will still be mediocre at best. But I still stand by the fact that every attempt Sony has made at a videogame movie has been awful.

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That's completely unrelated and it's a different division.
Not really, it has been stated by Sony themselves that they will be working together with Sony pictures wich has not been stated in here but in many different articles. There is already an uncharted movie being made and that is entirely being done by Sony pictures.
 

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Not really, it has been stated by Sony themselves that they will be working together with Sony pictures wich has not been stated in here but in many different articles. There is already an uncharted movie being made and that is entirely being done by Sony pictures.
Sony pictures made pixels though. It's Sony Pictures Animation you're looking for.
 

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I'm not defending Nintendo on collaborating with illuminations. I still think that movie will still be mediocre at best. But I still stand by the fact that every attempt Sony has made at a videogame movie has been awful.

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That's completely unrelated and it's a different division.

Different divisions/companies were involved in the films you listed.
 

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i wasn't talking about spiderverse but Sony movies in general. They have the experience so i'm sure it won't be as bad as everybody is making it out to be
We'll wait and see on that one.

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Different divisions/companies were involved in the films you listed.
Which true. But videogame movies have a tendency to be awful (only exceptions are Wreck it Ralph and Detective Pikachu).
 

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Which true. But videogame movies have a tendency to be awful (only exceptions are Wreck it Ralph and Detective Pikachu).

In general I agree, although I'm not against giving them a chance.

I would have written of Spider-verse by default, but the trailer and reviews were decent enough to make it worth the rental and I enjoyed it.
 

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my confidence is nearly nothing this will produce anything fun or good. but I'm more than willing to be surprised. Is there a list of usable IPs somewhere that sony could potentially draw from?
 

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If a last of us film is shit no one wil really care but if the game gets less than a 10 then sony will get a battering:lol:
 

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And Nintendo made an awful Mario movie and a shitty Mario show so your point is ?
that it wont be good lol

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Also I am hoping that they'll do something little big planet related, so much potential
 

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