{"id":1705,"date":"2022-04-19T00:05:15","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T22:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/a-streets-of-rage-movie-adaptation-is-coming\/"},"modified":"2022-04-19T00:05:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T22:05:15","slug":"a-streets-of-rage-movie-adaptation-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/a-streets-of-rage-movie-adaptation-is-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"A Streets of Rage movie adaptation is coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"source-title\">A Streets of Rage movie adaptation is coming<\/div>\n<div class=\"source-text\">\n<div>\n<p >A <em>Streets of Rage<\/em> movie adaptation is in the works from John Wick franchise creator Derek Kolstad, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2022\/04\/streets-of-rage-film-adaptation-john-wick-creator-derek-kolstad-1235004975\/\">according to a report from Deadline<\/a>. According to Deadline<\/a>, Kolstad wrote the script. <em>Sonic the Hedgehog<\/em> producer dj2 Entertainment and Escape Artists (<em>Equalizer<\/em>) will produce the adaptation, Deadline said. <\/p>\n<p >The Sega franchise Streets of Rage saw its long-awaited video game follow-up in <em>Streets of Rage<\/em> <em>4 <\/em>in 2020, continuing the side-scrolling beat-&#8217;em-up series that originated with <em>Streets of Rage<\/em> in 1991. The first game was published on Sega&#8217;s Genesis console and centered on ex-police fighting a crime syndicate. The series went on a decades-long break after <em>Streets of Rage 3<\/em> &#8212; aside from re-releases &#8212; until <em>Streets of Rage 4<\/em> came out in 2020 from Lizardcube, Guard Crush Games, and Dotemu. <\/p>\n<p >The latest release was a hit; Polygon editor-in-chief Chris Plante, reviewing it for the site, said it was &#8220;everything [he] could have wanted from a true Streets of Rage sequel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p >Production company dj2 Entertainment has a string of video game-inspired live-action adaptations in the works, including projects based on <em>Disco Elysium<\/em>, <em>Life is Strange<\/em>, and <em>It Takes Two<\/em>. Sega has pursued numerous adaptations from its back catalogue, but with little success other than the Sonic the Hedgehog films. The publisher has previously announced live-action adaptations of classic Sega brands like Shinobi, Altered Beast, and the more obscure Rent-A-Hero. (Kolstad&#8217;s film is the second announced Streets of Rage adaptation. )<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"source-image\">https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/1GbYFsq8ROtWClhr03vrI7DlKsQ=\/0x0:1800&#215;942\/fit-in\/1200&#215;630\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/23398749\/sor_artwork.jpg<\/div>\n<div class=\"source-link\">https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/23031001\/streets-of-rage-movie-sega-john-wick-derek-kolstad<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Streets of Rage movie adaptation is coming A Streets of Rage movie adaptation is in the works from John Wick franchise creator Derek Kolstad, according to a report from Deadline. According to Deadline, Kolstad wrote the script. Sonic the Hedgehog producer dj2 Entertainment and Escape Artists (Equalizer) will produce the adaptation, Deadline said. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}