Via Deadline comes news that Stories International, a joint media venture between SEGA and Hakuhodo DY Group launched in 2011, plans to release a movie based on the 1991 Mega Drive game Rent A Hero. The movie will be spearheaded by filmmakers Steve Pink and Jeff Morris, with Pink’s credits including Hot Tub Time Machine, High Fidelity and Grosse Pointe Blank and Morris’ most recent credit being the upcoming Netflix project The True Memoirs of an International Assassin starring Kevin James. The original Rent A Hero starred the character Taro Yamada as the “Rent A Hero”, a hero for hire that needs to complete various tasks to save the day and pay for his suit. The game never saw release in the West, though a fan made english hack exists and an Xbox remake almost released to the West but was cancelled – though the finished translated version exists and is playable.
Stories International’s president and CEO Tomoya Suzuki and Hakuhodo DY Group are slated to produce. Meanwhile, Evan J. Cholfin of Stories International will oversee the film as executive producer.
So… first Shinobi and now Rent A Hero! What do you think of SEGA’s upcoming films? Sound off in the comments below!
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It’s an… odd choice to make a [American/Western] movie out of, to say the least.
On Shinobi I think that they should use the actor from Ninja Assassin I think his name is Rain. I used to wish it coud be Shoko suki from Ninja domination but he’s old.
Sho Kosugi.
Yes thats it thank you
I hope Stories will get some more Hollywood producers to adapt the Virtua Fighter movie.
That be cool but I hope that it doesn’t turn out like House of the Dead
Not so sure about this Rent A Hero project or not. I have an older .rom file & genesis emulator. The style Genesis/SMD game called Rent A Hero.. It looks RPG like, Curious, same game or different ?? I could post a screen shot, but there’s no option