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| "Soul of Tsushima" will be adapted into the movie |
1905. Sony’s popular game "Soul of Tsushima" officially announced that it will be adapted into a movie. According to foreign media reports, director Chad Starski, who has directed action movies such as "Quick Hunting", will be in charge of the film. And this is also the second film in cooperation between Sony Pictures and Sony PS. The previous film was "Uncharted".
"Soul of Tsushima Island" is an open world action adventure game. After the game was launched in the market, it received a lot of praise and praise. On November 13, 2020, game sales have exceeded 5 million copies, setting a new record for Sony's first-party original innovative IP exclusive game sales on PS4.
The story of the entire game took place in 1274. At that time, the Japanese samurai was a powerful guardian of Japan, and the Mongols invaded Japan through Tsushima Island. The protagonist of the players is a samurai from the Kamakura shogunate. This samurai will do his best to defend his country from the Mongol Empire. The protagonist Jing Jingren has been trained as a warrior since he was a child. When the Mongols defeated the warriors, his world was also shattered. He was faced with the hardest choice in his life: to follow the samurai spirit and traditions he inherited from his childhood and persist in this hopeless war; or to abandon the samurai way and do whatever it takes to protect the island and his compatriots.
In the summer of 2019, Sony, as a film company, established the PlayStation Productions department, which specializes in the development of film and television series adapted from PS games. Sony Pictures’ CEO Tony Vinciqueira said in an interview that Sony’s various departments will cooperate more closely in the future, including more movies and TV series based on PS game IP. There are currently 3 adapted movies and 7 Adapted TV series into production.
