UPDATE: ‘Days Gone’ Film Set at PlayStation Productions, ‘Gravity Rush’ Locked Too
Sony’s PlayStation Productions is ready to get another show on the road as it’s started development on a Days Gone feature film.
It feels like we’re getting a new project announcement from PlayStation Productions every month now, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing, as Sony’s library of first-party games is anything but dull. Here’s a quick (but packed) recap: this year’s Uncharted film ended up finding gold despite not clicking with critics; HBO is ready to unleash the long-anticipated The Last of Us series early next year; Peacock is hard at work on a Twisted Metal series; Ghost of Tsushima looms on the horizon for John Wick helmer Chad Stahelski; and both God of War and Horizon are getting shows at Prime Video and Netflix respectively.
Now, Deadline has learned 2019’s open-world action-adventure title Days Gone will soon be joining PlayStation Studios’ meaty line-up of live-action adaptations. Moreover, Outlander star Sam Heughan is already circling the starring role of Deacon St. John (originally played by Star Wars alum Sam Witwer), a former motorcycle club member that “fights to survive against the forces of despair and mutated, predatory humans in his quest to find the long lost, presumed dead, love of his life.”
The kicker here is that Oscar-nominated scribe Sheldon Turner (Up in the Air) is already set to pen a script which is being described as “a love ballad to motorcycle movies,” which is certainly an angle that could help sell what is ultimately another post-apocalyptic, zombie-filled story. Further details are unknown at this point, but it appears this new project has been flying under the radar for quite some time if acting talent is already (almost) attached.
Jennifer Klein and Sheldon Turner himself are producing through their production company, Vendetta Productions. Asad Qizilbash and Carter Swan are producing for Sony PlayStation Productions. We are expecting more news from their upcoming slate of adaptations — and a teaser for The Last of Us — in the coming months, so stay tuned.
UPDATE: They don’t stop coming! Deadline is now also reporting that trippy action-adventure game Gravity Rush is getting the live-action film treatment as well.
More importantly, PlayStation Productions has teamed up with Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Productions to put together the project, which already has a director (Anna Mastro) and a writer (Emily Jerome) attached to it. Mastro recently directed Secret Society of Second-Born Royals for Disney Plus, and Jerome’s sole writing credit is Panopticon, an upcoming thriller that has Shailene Woodley and Anthony Mackie set to star.
Gravity Rush (2012) is an open-world PlayStation Vita game — later ported to PS4, where its sequel launched — that was developed by (now defunct) Japan Studio’s Project Siren and published worldwide by Sony Computer Entertainment. The main character is Kat, “an amnesiac with the ability to manipulate gravity who uses her powers to defend the floating community of Hekseville from gravity storms and the mysterious race of monsters known as the Nevi.”
Francisco J. Ruiz is that guy who has watched Jurassic Park a thousand times and loves Star Wars. His hunger for movies is only matched by his love for video games. He graduated in English Studies from the University of Malaga, in Spain. As he keeps writing about what he enjoys (and doesn’t) for websites all over, he’s continuing his studies.
