Remember OutRun? Well, if you don’t you’d better ask an older relative or mate, because the classic SEGA racing series is now reportedly getting a movie adaptation driven by Sydney Sweeney and notorious explosion connoisseur Michael Bay.
Yep, Mario, Minecraft, Sonic – all big hitters on the big screen after making the jump from the world of video games – and now OutRun, a series that hasn’t had a new entry since 2009. Any chance of a Burnout movie if you’re doing beloved arcade racing series that’re kinda dormant now? Come on Mike, You know you want to.
According to Deadline, this OutRun movie is in the works at Universal. Bay’s set to direct it, with Sweeney aboard to produce rather than star, and Jayson Rothwell of Polar, Silent Night, and Zemanovaload fame will write the script.
There aren’t any details as to what the plot’ll look like yet, but one would assume plenty of Fast and Furious-style car chases involving 80s Ferraris which are blasting funky electronic tunes. Nyoooms and big booms all but guaranteed if Bay’s previous work like Transformers and The Rock is anything to go by, with the director also producing the adaptation alongside partner Brad Fuller and Sweeney.
On the SEGA side, Toru Nakahara – veteran of Sonic the Hedgehog 1-3, Knuckles, and Golden Axe – has been brought in to produce, and company president/COO Shuji Utsumi will be helping oversee the project.
While this news is a bit surprising, SEGA has been doing some stuff to help revive and take advatage of its beloved back catalogue lately, bringing back the likes of Crazy Taxi, Jet Set Radio, and Virtua Fighter via fresh entries. Nostalgia, we do all love a bit of it.
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