Last year, Sony announced that it put a dedicated television and movie adaptation studio in the works for its various video game IPs. It's called PlayStation Productions, and it's headed by Asad Qizilbash and overseen by Shawn Layden, the Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios chairman. The studio's goal is to create accurate adaptations of its beloved video game properties by using creative talent that actually knows the source material. Thus, it's keeping production in-house rather than outsourcing to other studios.
In an interview with Media Post, PlayStation Productions chairman and CEO Tony Vinciquerra spoke about some of PlayStation Productions' future plans. The interview mostly centered around how the studio plans to handle theatrical and streaming releases in 2021, but at the very end of it, Vinciquerrra mentioned some of the projects that PlayStation Productions has in store. Apparently, the studio has a total of ten movie and TV adaptations in the works for its video game IPs.
Vinciquerra didn't name any specific IPs that these projects will adapt, so it's currently a mystery as to what video games they'll all bring to the big and small screen. That said, Vinciquerra did state that three of the projects are movies, while the other seven are TV shows. Also, three of the projects were revealed outside of this interview. The first is the recently wrapped Uncharted movie. The second is the upcoming The Last of Us HBO series, and the third is a show based on Sony's Twisted Metal.
That leaves two movies and five shows left, and Sony has several different candidates it could use to fill these roles. A God of War TV show, in particular, is something that God of War (2018) director Cory Barlog expressed interest in. Horizon Zero Dawn would also make a great live-action television series. On the animation side of things, Sly Cooper is dying for some attention, movies or otherwise, and Ratchet and Clank could find redemption in a Sony-led, animated series.
It's impossible to say at the moment since none of these projects have released to the public eye, but Sony might be able to pull off breaking the videogame-movie curse and populating television with more video game adaptations. On the movie front, Sony should understand its own IPs better than anyone, and it has plenty of experience in film-making. As for television, it's a much easier place to tell a video game story due to its long-form format.
Source: Media Post