
We're not typically the kind of website that gets excited over movies, but this newly announced project sounds very promising. PlayStation is once again branching out one of its properties to the big screen, as Deadline reports that a Ghost of Tsushima film is happening.
The best thing about this, though? Chad Stahelski, the director of the immensely successful (and very entertaining) John Wick movie series is attached to direct. Given how action-packed Ghost of Tsushima is as a game, we're expecting a potential martial arts masterpiece from Stahelski.
"We’re excited to be partnering with Chad and 87Eleven Entertainment, to bring their vision of Jin’s story to the big screen. We love working with creative partners like Chad, who have a passion for our games, ensuring we can create rich adaptations that will excite our fans and new audiences," reads a statement from PlayStation Productions head Asad Qizilbash. It sounds like the film's going to follow the same plot as the game, then, at least to some extent.
Meanwhile, Ghost of Tsushima developer Sucker Punch posted about the announcement on Twitter:
There's currently no word on when we can expect this adaptation to release, or word on who's starring in it. Again, though, with the talent that's involved and the inherent filmic quality that Ghost of Tsushima already has, we have high hopes for this production.
What would you like from a Ghost of Tsushima movie? Give us your best action scene in the comments section below.
[source deadline.com]
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You have my attention.
At this rate, I'm predicting a Horizon movie next!
Sounds very promising
@Icey664 Definitely happening.
I'm waiting for MLB: The Show; The Movie.
The Wick movies are money. This is a great fit so I'm really excited.
Of all the properties, this isn't a bad one to take. I can't wait to see some naked hotspring Jin butt on the big screen. Gonna go IMAX
Nice, can't wait to see it, I hope it's as good as john wick movies
I know it's no different than a Western developer making a samurai epic game, but it feels kind of off to not have a Japanese director. Also, I know you can ask this question about every game to movie, but what is the point here? Ghost is essentially trying to turn Kurosawa flicks into a game, so it's the whole the movie of the game of the movie, etc. I'm sure it could be entertaining, the idea just doesn't sit with me.
He directed the hell out of John Wick 2 and 3, so I'm much more interested in this than I normally would be.
The film snob in me would want this to be a Japanese-led production; and get someone like Takashi Miike involved. Let's hope this ends up more 13 Assassins and less 47 Ronin.
@JB_Whiting Absolutely, not having a Japanese director doesn’t give me much hope. I can’t think of a single good Western samurai or wuxia movie.
Interesting. Just hope it doesn't suffer the same fate as the Uncharted film. By that, I mean I hope it doesn't suffer from too many delays and a troubled development.
Video Game movies about plot-heavy games will never make sense to me. You want to appeal to people who already like the game, because if you don't, you're then trying to appeal to people who haven't played the game or don't play games at all. So for fans of the game, it's just a rehash with tons of cut content.
I think this has a lot of potential, actually. Hopefully it's a winner.
Hopefully a Ratchet and Clank movie is ne--wait...
@nessisonett The Last Samurai is an excellent movie.
White wash incoming
@Jaz007 The Last Samurai also isn’t an actual samurai movie in the traditional sense. It’s basically Braveheart in Japan. It doesn’t resemble Jidaigeki movies at all, and is literally just a Hollywood movie set in Japan. 13 Ronin attempted to do the actual Jidaigeki stylings along with incorporating Wuxia elements and it’s a pile of rubbish.
Really it should be black and white and shot like a Kurosawa film just with modern effects and production values.
Interesting choice, too soon though? Horizon Zero Dawn would make a perfect film series, surprised Ghost has been picked before Horizon if I'm being honest.
Great news, will def be watching this.
@nessisonett Kill Bill may be the closest thing, but that's a mix of a lot of different styles.
While it should include some classic samurai duels, they should imitate Ruroni Kenshin movies swordplay which have one of the best sword fights choreography in any movie!
Really liked JW 1&2 but didn’t enjoy 3 as much. But great fit for GoT movie.
@Deadhunter Yeah, if this was a neo-samurai movie then I’d have mentioned Ghost Dog and Ronin but GoT is a classic samurai tale and as such, should be handled in the same way as classic Kurosawa movies or even Zhang Yimou movies.
You would think a Japanese company would get a Japanese director to direct their game based entirely in Japan 😅 I will hold full judgement till I see a trailer or something but my expectations are pretty low now.
@Juanalf Technically, Sony Pictures/Sony Entertainment is an American company based in and run by Americans... They also tend do things separate from their parents company.
Knack the movie when? In seriousness, Ghost is heavily inspired by Japanese samurai movies, so if treated with respect, this could be excellent.
I wonder if they'll cast the actor that played/screencapped Jin, or a Japanese actor, or if they go the usual Hollywood route and cast a big name actor who doesn't fit the bill (IE the Rock) 🙄
@JB_Whiting Agree, perhaps Takashi Mike or Yoji Yamara could co-direct. If they wanted a director that can appeal to Eastern and western tastes, Gareth Evans could be a solid choice. And that man knows how to direct martial arts seeing the raid 1&2. It just shouldn't feel like a Hollywood movie.
Hollywood only knows Hiroyuki Sanada and Ken Watanabe, but they are amazing actors.
@nessisonett Still loved that movie. 😁
John Wick is one of my favourite movie franchises, it's the only trilogy I own all blurays!!!!!! I love it and the action is sublime.
If Chad is at the helm, this will be incredible for sure!
@uptownsoul The Witcher is a book.
I'm really not liking this trajectory that every single game franchise becomes a movie franchise. When gaming just starts being multimedia brand franchises it loses a lot of it's uniqueness. Worse, Sony games are already movies more times than not, so we need live action film versions of our CG films now? We're just copying the Disney pattern? Why not just forget the games and make the movies?
There’s far too many Japanese directors I’d love to see helm this, especially considering it would be a cool reverse of the video game being made by western developers. Excited nonetheless!
Could be good. I only ever watched the first John Wick film, but it was entertaining for sure. And I loved Ghost of Tsushima, so it'd be great if a movie adaptation did it justice. Considering the way its narrative was structured I think it'd be relatively easy to turn it into a feature film while retaining a satisfying flow of events and conclusion.
Something that popped into my mind, though... Naturally the cast would be comprised of Japanese actors, right? In that case I can't imagine the movie having original English audio, as there'll be an obvious language barrier for the actors.
So the ideal route would be Japanese dialogue with subtitles, plus an optional dub for western audiences I suppose. This is totally fine by me, mind - I know Japanese and love to hear it in media. It is a bit of a weird situation, though.
@uptownsoul Much as I loved R&C PS4, one of the best games of the generation, the whole game based on the movie based on the game thing is just...wrong. Make games. Make movies. Don't keep making movies of games of movies. It's the same mentality that has us on Star Wars Episode 3324. The quest to make every brand a multimedia empire is the hollowest of corporate streamlining.
@MattyHammo 😂😂😂you could be right as the rock is in every movie. 😉
Waiting for the uproar when they hire the palest person on Earth - Tom Holland - to play the lead. 🤣
I'd obviously watch this. But I watched Matt Damon in "The Great Wall" and almost liked it, so I hardly count.
Come to think of it, maybe that's the reason they didn't ask Zhang Yimou. @nessisonett Seriously though, his movies are over the top, maybe they want this a bit more realistic? Or they didn't want a Chinese director doing a Japanese film?
I do kind of miss that phase in my life when I was watching all of those Hero type movies.
@rjejr The style of those early 00s wuxia movies like Hero and House of Flying Daggers would be perfect for Ghost of Tsushima. If they went totally over the top then they could get John Woo because let’s be honest, the John Wick movies wish they were Hard Boiled!
@nessisonett Is John Woo still alive? I think I once spent a month watching only John Woo & Chow Yun-Fat movies. Then Tsui Hark (Hark Tsui?) Then I had to watch everything Nicholas Tse did b/c my wife had a crush on him. Then we watched all the Kaneshiro movies after Onimusha, which got us on our Wong Kar Wai kick. Or vice versa on those two. I think that was the year our son first son was born, parents of newborns need their fantasy escape. And you don't get much more fantasy escape than Zu Warriors. The original, though we've watched the remake as well. One of my favorite movies looks like that, I think it was "A Man Named Hero", not to be confused w/ "Hero". Still messes me up to this day.
Wait, scratch that, Storm Riders. (I've been searching for that for 2 days now.)
And marginally related but in case you were wondering, I watched all those Venom Mob movies when I was a kid. I've had my wife sit thru a few. Not 5 Deadly Venoms oddly enough. Though we did see the Power Rangers season w/ the 5 Fingers of Poison, close enough. 😉

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On topic - I haven't played GoT yet, but I could see them going for a much darker in the mud type movie - see the last 30 minutes of Arnold vs the Predator - rather than Arnold vs Jackie Chan.
I swear there are at least 3 different movies in this trailer and none of them are related to each other. Still need to watch it though, it's Jackie. And it looks fun. But They aren't going for any of these 3 w/ GoT.
@get2sammyb @Icey664 We better also get a God of War movie too then, would love to see that!
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