Streets of Rage Movie Announced by Lionsgate

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Streets of Rage Movie Announced by Lionsgate

The previously announced Streets of Rage film adaptation has officially found a home, with Lionsgate landing the rights to the feature film.

The movie, which is set to be penned by John Wick writer Derek Kolstad, will be produced by Kolstad alongside Sega’s Toru Nakahara, dj2 Entertainment’s Dmitri M. Johnson, Timothy I. Stevenson, Dan Jevons, and Escape Artists’ Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, and Tony Shaw.

“When Dmitri first mentioned the idea of cracking a Streets of Rage movie, I was so immediately freaking in. And to play with Sega? The ten-year-old me is still grinning,” said Kolstad in a statement.

Currently, not much is known about the upcoming film adaptation, but if its screenwriter’s history is anything to go by, the film will likely be a huge action spectacle on par with the games it’s based on.

The Streets of Rage series started in 1991 and became a well-known 2D beat ’em up series. The most recent entry, 2020’s Streets of Rage 4, was received incredibly well and shows that the franchise has life even over three decades later.