A Live-Action Destiny Movie Would Be A Mistake
Sony didn’t acquire Bungie for $3.6 billion just because it wanted a piece of that Eververse money. With Bungie, Sony gets a strategic partner that can help it achieve a foothold in live service - a segment of the industry Sony is keen to grow over the next five years - while also providing Bungie with the means to expand Destiny into a multimedia franchise - something Bungie has wanted for Destiny for a long time. In an earnings call Q&A this week, Sony CFO Hiroki Totoki said that Bungie can now leverage Sony Pictures and Sony Music to grow Destiny beyond games. Specifically, Totoki referenced turning Destiny into a movie.
It’s not an official announcement, but there’s no doubt Destiny will have a big (or small) screen adaptation - it’s just a matter of time. Sony is well on its way with several video game adaptations like Uncharted, The Last of Us, and Ghost of Tsushima, and Bungie hired Riot’s director of animated shorts to be the head of development for Destiny universe transmedia this week. We know it’s coming, we just don’t know what it will look like.
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Sony is no stranger to live-action video game movies. Besides Uncharted, Sony also distributed last year’s Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City and Monster Hunter. Sony also has an inhouse animation studio, Sony Pictures Animation, which produced The Angry Birds Movie 2 and Into the Spider-Verse. There’s also Sony Pictures Television, which produces a wide range of TV content across almost every network and streaming service. The most notable recent shows from Sony Pictures Television includes The Boys, Cobra Kai, and The Wheel of Time.
Bungie could go in any direction with Destiny, but Sony
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