‘Streets Of Rage’: Lionsgate Picks Up Feature Take Of Sega Video Game From Derek Kolstad
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has acquired the feature adaptation of hit Sega video game Streets of Rage which John Wick franchise scribe Derek Kolstad is writing and producing alongside the videogame brand’s Toru Nakahara, dj2 Entertainment’s Dmitri M.
Johnson, Timothy I. Stevenson, and Dan Jevons, and Escape Artists’ Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, and Tony Shaw. Deadline first told you about the project.
Streets of Rage was one of the most popular videogame franchises of the ’90s, with Sega publishing three games between 1991 and 1994.
In 2020, the long-awaited fourth game in the series was released, which received rave reviews and became a bestseller. Brady Fujikawa and Jon Humphrey are shepherding the project for Lionsgate, with Shuji Utsumi and Toru Nakahara overseeing for Sega, Johnson overseeing for dj2 Entertainment, and Shaw steering for Escape Artists.
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