Steve Pink (Hot Tub Time Machine films, About Last Night) has agreed to direct a film adaptation of Sega’s Rent a Hero video game, and he is also co-writing the proposed film with Jeff Morris (Netflix’s The True Memoirs of an International Assassin).
Stories International, Suzuki, and Choflin are also developing a film for Sega’s Shinobi video game franchise.
Pink wrote the films High Fidelity and Grosse Pointe Blank; Pink’s production partner John Cusack starred in those films and Hot Tub Time Machine.
Stories International, a joint venture between Sega and advertising agency Hakuhodo DY Group, is overseeing the project.