Sonic the Hedgehog film creator forms new media company with John Wick writer
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Sonic the Hedgehog co-creator Dmitri Johnson has teamed up with John Wick writer/creator Derek Kolstad to form the new media company Story Kitchen.
Johnson is the founder of dj2 Entertainment, which specialized in taking beloved game franchises to broader entertainment with the successful Sonic the Hedgehog movies as well as Tomb Raider: The Animated Series for Netflix.
In other words, we can expect to see more video game franchises turned into movies, which is the big Hollywood trend now and is the opposite of what used to happen where movies were turned into games. I think of this as reverse transmedia, and it’s a reflection of how game audiences have grown. Both Kolstad and Johnson have spoken about this at our previous GamesBeat Summit events. I asked Johnson if this means he will still adapt video games to movies and TV shows.
“Absolutely! If anything, we’ll be tripling down on adaptations. We already have some unannounced adaptations in the works, so we couldn’t be more excited,” Johnson said in an email.
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The partners said in a statement, “After having spent the last several years working together and admiring one another’s storytelling chops, energy, taste, and ideas, we collectively came to the same conclusion: That the only way to double down on cooking up the most amazing Franchises and Worlds possible – was for us to unite as one.”
We’ve seen a lot of this happening lately, with the
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