Universal Pictures Announces Shinobi Movie

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SEGA’S ICONIC VIDEOGAME FRANCHISE, SHINOBI, SLASHES ITS WAY TO UNIVERSAL PICTURES WITH SAM HARGRAVE DIRECTING

Sam Hargrave, Ken Kobayashi, Marc Platt Productions, Story Kitchen, SEGA Corporation and Universal Pictures team-up to bring SEGA’s iconic franchise to the big screen.

• Sam Hargrave (Extraction franchise) is set to direct an adaptation of SEGA’s iconic franchise, SHINOBI, with Ken Kobayashi (Sunny, Move On) adapting the screenplay for Universal Pictures.

• Marc Platt and Adam Siegel will produce through Marc Platt Productions. Dmitri M. Johnson will produce through Story Kitchen. Toru Nakahara will produce through SEGA. Mike Goldberg will executive produce alongside Timothy I. Stevenson, who is co-producing.

• The SHINOBI series first debuted in 1987 as an arcade game and primarily follows protagonist Joe Musashi as a modern-day ninja who confronts great evil. Crafted with a focus on epic and edgy action, the SHINOBI franchise spans fourteen games, including spinoffs, and ports, with 5M+ copies sold worldwide. A new entry in the series was revealed in late 2023. (See video game trailer here.) More information about the new game will be revealed in the future.

• SHINOBI follows Universal Pictures’ 2023 video game adaptation success with The Super Mario Bros. Movie and Five Nights at Freddy’s which grossed over $1.4B and $290M respectively in the global box office.

• Hargrave is repped by WME and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher, LLP

• Kobayashi is repped by CAA, Redefine Entertainment and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole LLP

• Story Kitchen is repped by WME and Pryor Cashman

• Marc Platt Productions is repped by Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris

• Toru Nakahara negotiated on behalf of SEGA

• Universal’s Senior Vice President of Production Development Ryan Jones and Director of Production Development Christine Sun will oversee the project for the Studio.

ABOUT SEGA CORPORATION

SEGA CORPORATION is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, and is a worldwide leader in interactive entertainment. The company develops, publishes, and distributes a variety of games for consoles, PCs, and wireless devices as well as character products, and various other products. Moreover, SEGA distributes a range of gaming content developed by its domestic and overseas studios worldwide via its global publishing bases. SEGA is leveraging its own IP to accelerate the development and commercialization of its IP not only in games but also in various other media, thereby dramatically increasing the value of its IP. SEGA is positioning transmedia as an important strategy for providing new content to users around the world.

SEGA CORPORATION’s website is located at https://www.sega.co.jp/