John Wick creator Derek Kolstad is engaged on one more videogame adaptation. Fresh off the information that he is writing and producing a Streets of Rage movie, it emerged that Kolstad is taking up the identical duties for a live-action film primarily based on Sifu.
Kolstad and his companions at media firm Story Kitchen have teamed up with Sifu developer and writer Sloclap, as Deadline stories. The beat-’em-up proved successful when it was launched in February, because it bought 1,000,000 copies in three weeks — regardless of Elden Ring and Horizon Forbidden West arriving at across the similar time. What makes Sifu stand out from the pact is that each time the protagonist dies of their quest for vengeance, they grow old however their enemies keep the identical age.
That hook alone offers a screenwriter quite a lot of intriguing potentialities. The one vs. many facet of Sifu appears proper up Kolstad’s alley as effectively, given his expertise with the John Wick franchise and Nobody. As if all that wasn’t sufficient, Kolstad can be behind Netflix’s Splinter Cell, an upcoming animated collection primarily based on Ubisoft’s video games.