It feels like virtually every reasonably popular video game series is getting a movie or TV show adaptation. PlayStation Productions, the film games-to-film division within Sony, is seemingly adding a cult classic to the pile too.
According to Deadline, PlayStation Productions and Scott Free Productions have begun working on a Gravity Rush film based on the mind-bending action-adventure title. Anna Mastro, best known for Secret Society of Second-Born Royals, will be directing, while the script is by Emily Jerome (Panopticon). It doesn’t sound as if Sony has a distributor for the movie yet, though.
Gravity Rush is one of PlayStation’s lesser-known internal franchises. The first game came out on the PlayStation Vita in 2012 with pretty good reviews. It’s set in the fantasy city of Hekseville, where a young girl named Kat discovers she can manipulate gravity at will. This one is a must-play if you like watercolor vistas and clever puzzles.
Several years ago, there was a remaster for PS4, along with the sequel Gravity Rush 2. Keiichiro Toyama, the creator of Silent Hill, came up with Gravity Rush during his time at Sony. Now he’s working on Slitterhead, an all-new survival horror series.
Along with Gravity Rush, PlayStation Productions has film and television projects for The Last of Us, Ghost of Tsushima, Gran Turismo, God of War, and Horizon Zero Dawn. The company is probably greenlighting all of this due to Uncharted’s success.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.
