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Sega Is Looking to Adapt Atlus Games for Live-Action TV and Movies - Including Persona - IGN

IGN can exclusively reveal that Sega is exploring live-action movie and TV adaptations of Atlus games, including Persona.

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Sega is looking to expand further into film and TV by exploring potential live-action adaptations for games developed by Atlus.

In an exclusive reveal to IGN, Sega says that expanding storytelling forms is a new and important part of Sega's overall business strategy. This is why Sega is opening up Atlus' critically-acclaimed library of games — which includes series like Shin Megami Tensei, Persona, and Catherine — to potential live-action film and TV adaptations.

"Atlus' worlds are filled with high drama, cutting-edge style and compelling characters," says Toru Nakahara, Sega's lead producer on the live-action Sonic the Hedgehog movies and Sonic Prime TV series. "Stories like those from the Persona franchise really resonate with our fans and we see an opportunity to expand the lore like no one has seen — or played — before."

 

[Danjin44]

 

[Shifty]

 

[YukiOnna]

How about just making sure they have a steady output of games...

Guess I'll be seeing this again in a few months

 

[ParaSeoul]

 

[PaddyOCanager]

 

[The_hunter]

 

[TintoConCasera]

At first I was thinking: NO.

But then I thought: demon tits?

 

[Deft Beck]

However we see a Persona show or movie, it will barely have any resemblance to the source material. It's just too Japanese of a franchise for it to be well adapted here.

Unless they go for a Riverdale/Sabrina style show.

 

[Kataploom]

Haven't these companies realized that NO ONE like these wave of live actions? Actually, any "live action" announcement is always received with fear by basically anyone, even those that watch them I've seen them criticize them more than praise them, the only one good live action is the Rurouni Kenshin live action movies but those are so exceptional... Even the "good" live actions end up being received like "not great but not bad", why do everyone want to make live actions these days where people is already full of them being bad?

Honest rant

 

[Magic Carpet]

The adventures of Tiki the fairy from Dragons Crown.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

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There was a OVA of Persona 3.

 

[Slothbeing1209]

Yakuza movie XD

 

[nominedomine]

I always thought something like this would work really well, Persona 3 in particular.

However we see a Persona show or movie, it will barely have any resemblance to the source material. It's just too Japanese of a franchise for it to be well adapted here.

Unless they go for a Riverdale/Sabrina style show.

Set it in Japan? Just look at the success of Round 6.

 

[Graciaus]

Make more anime. Know your audience.

 

[Doom85]

There was a OVA of Persona 3.

Well, four films adapting 3. 4 got two anime series (one for OG game, another one for Golden), and 5 got one anime series.

There was also an older Persona anime that takes place 10 years after 3, but the less said about it the better.

 

[TintoConCasera]

Whatever they do, I hope it's at least better produced than this:

 

[iorek21]

Don’t know about other titles, but P4 and P5 would work really well… with decent writing of course.

 

[lachesis]

They have musical version.

Not my cup of tea though... but I know Sega also had some loyal followings of Sakura Taisen stage shows.
But still... a lot of times, the live action ones tend to become poor budget cosplay show, which is actually distracting to me.

 

[Doom85]

They have musical version.

Not my cup of tea though... but I know Sega also had some loyal followings of Sakura Taisen stage shows.
But still... a lot of times, the live action ones tend to become poor budget cosplay show, which is actually distracting to me.

That cast actually looks on point to me. Interested to see how Futaba and Haru look.

 

[ShirAhava]

A Persona 1 movie done right would be epic 2 would be sick as well......not really interested in adaptations of the modern games

 

[drganon]

Netflix's Persona.

 

[Shmunter]

Humans are really out of ideas. We need to evolve a new part of our brains.

 

[Daytonabot]

Netflix's Persona.

Now with more melanin and gender dysphoria!

 

[Bullet Club]

Columns The Movie trilogy written, directed and produced by Peter Jackson please Sega.

 

[Fbh]

Anime live action adaptations are almost always terrible. Atlus games are basically playable anime. So all these adaptations will be trash.


But I'll watch if they make Steve Buscemi the main character and everyone just acts as if he was a regular highschool kid:

 

[Danjin44]

Anime live action adaptations are almost always terrible. Atlus games are basically playable anime. So all these adaptations will be trash.

I'm still have hard time believing they making live action of One Piece, that gonna look beyond awful.