Sony Interactive Entertainment’s action game Ghost of Tsushima which was developed by Sucker Punch Productions for PlayStation 5, is getting a live-action remake. The game which saw daylight in 2020 is reportedly under ‘heavy development’ as a movie. John Wick director Chad Stahelski is reportedly helming the movie which will focus on Jin Sakai's story. In the open-world game, players could assume the role of Sakai who's a samurai on a quest to protect Tsushima Island during the first Mongol invasion of Japan. Sakai must free the three parts of the island captured by Khotun Khan, and track down his uncle Lord Shimura and free him from imprisonment.
During a recent interview, Stahelski opened up about certain details about the remake which could go on floors by early 2024. “The game story of Jin Sakai, and it being what I would say is, 'The most anti-samurai samurai movie out there,' because of the storylines, thematics in it, and the journey that Jin Sakai goes through [...] is so interesting to me. The characters in the story are definitely something I don't want to lose in any way,” he said.
The Ghost of Tsushima Movie May Have An All-Japanese Cast
He further added, "The trick is not do we have great material, we know we have great material. It's how to make it palpable in any platform. You know, how do we make a great two, two and a half-hour movie out of this? Make it satisfying and leave it open to expand further from there. That's the real challenge. How to take so much great and get it down to a watchable level." In April this year, Ghost Of Tsushima was voted 'most beautiful video game world,’ by fans. Sucker Punch had collaborated with a Tokyo-based studio named Japan Studio and had reportedly sent some of the creators to the island of Tsushima twice to get the look and feel right in the game. The art style of the game was seemingly influenced by the 2005 action-adventure game Shadow of the Colossus.
Stahelski has also teased the possibility of an all-Japanese cast for the movie. “Honestly, we’d to try to do it, all in character. Meaning, it’s a Japanese thing about the Mongols invading Tsushima island. A complete Japanese cast, in Japanese. Sony is so on board with backing us on that. I’ve been going to Japan since I was 16. I have a love of the country, a love of the people, love of the language. To try to direct not only in my language, but someone else’s and culturally shift my mindset to bring apart that in a cool way that still entices a Western audience.”