Part of Sega‘s five-year “Super Game” plan is that some of their games can be expanded globally through other media like movies and TV. This is especially true of their existing IPs, including those that have been dormant for quite a while. Two of those dormant IPs — Comix Zone and Space Channel 5 — will now be getting their own movies through a partnership with Picturestart.
Turning Space Channel 5 and Comix Zone into modern movies
The original Space Channel 5 game tells the story of a journalist who is trying to report on an alien invasion while fending off rival reporters and battling the aliens themselves, all through the power of dance. The movie will take a different direction by bringing the plot into the modern era. While mixing comedy with dance, viewers will witness a “hapless fast-food worker who is recruited by a freedom reporter from the future to save the world from aliens using the one thing that unites all people on the planet: our love of silly viral dances.” The movie will be written by Barry Battles (The Baytown Outlaws) and Nir Paniry (Extracted) but not without involvement from Space Channel 5 writer Takumi Yoshinaga, who will be part of the team.
Comix Zone is also being brought into the modern era while somewhat following the plot of the original game. While there is still a comic book artist who is drawn into the panels of his own comic book series, this time there’s a twist: he’s accompanied by a “young, queer writer of color.” When the pair are sucked into the final issue of the popular comic book series, the duo must work out their differences and stop a supervillain from destroying the world. Perhaps aiming at a younger audience, Mae Catt (Young Justice and Dragons: The Nine Realms) will be writing this one.
In other news, a Pokemon Scarlet and Violet leak suggests Ed Sheeran may be composing an in-game song for the pair. Elsewhere, players can get one of a selection of free games when purchasing an Xbox Series S from Amazon.
