News of a film adaptation of Saints Row has been round for years, but it surely’s lastly taking place and director F. Gary Gray is on board.
Men In Black: International, and Straight Outta Compton director F. Gary Gray is pegged to be the director of the Saints Row film, Deadline experiences, through TheSixthAxis. Writer Greg Russo, who’s engaged on reboots for the Resident Evil and Mortal Kombat movies, might be penning the script.
The movie is a co-production between Deep Silver’s guardian firm Koch Media, Fenix Studios, and Occupant Entertainment.
The first whiff of a film based mostly on the franchise was again in 2009 when the IP nonetheless belonged to THQ. Just earlier than the discharge of his game, 50 Cent: Blood within the Sand, the rapper informed US journalists that he was optioning the movie rights however that didn’t pan out.
Back in 2013, earlier than the IP was at THQ Nordic, Koch Media CEO Klemens Kundratitz had talked about the opportunity of film diversifications of its IPs, together with Saints Row and Metro, saying they had been ” not out of the query.”
In case you wished a refresher on the who owns what, and after they owned it, when THQ went bust, Nordic Games bought a number of the former publisher’s properties, as did Koch Media, with the latter snapping up Saints Row along with Metro.
Nordic Games re-branded to THQ Nordic in 2016 and acquired Koch Media last year, together with all studios, licenses, IPs, and different non-games companies. Which contains Saints Row.
And that’s the place we’re at now.
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