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Director F. Gary Gray ( Straight Outta Compton ) is developing a movie based on Deep Silver ’s popular natural action game seriesSaints Row . The adaptation will be script by Greg Russo , who is also writing the script for the movie reboot of theMortal Kombatfranchise .
Developed by Volition and write by Deep Silver , the Saints Row games have a caboodle in common with the just - knownGrand Theft Autoseries . They have sandbox gameplay that mixes racing and shootout , and invite players to joyfully partake in various crimes around the city of Stilwater and Steelport . In each of the games the player is part of a pack call the Third Street Saints , and must battle rival gangs ( and also sometimes aliens ) as part of a quest to achieve dominance and preserve their street cred .
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According toDeadline , the Saints Row moving picture is being produced through Gray ’s Fenix Studios , Deep Silver parent company Koch Media , and Occupant Entertainment . Fenix is also develop another video game movie , Echo , based on the third - mortal sci - fi stealth biz of the same name that was let go in 2017 . Gray has plenty of experience in the legal action genre , having directedThe Fate of the Furious , Law Abiding Citizen , and upcoming sequel / rebootMen in Black : International , which stars Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson and arrives in theaters on June 14 .
There have been fourSaints Rowgames released so far , with no sign of a fifth plot on the purview right now . The games got increasingly more freakish until the most recent title , Saint Row IV , in which the participant starts out as the President of the United States ( while also still being the leader of the Third Street Saints ) , and then larn superpowers and has to save the creation from an alien intrusion . It ’s not yet known which of theSaints Rowgames Gray is develop , but we ’d hazard a surmisal that it ’s one of the early ones - unless this is a surpriseMen in Blackspinoff .
Though video game movies do n’t exactly have the best track record , there have been recent feat to attempt and make the genre work . CurrentlyDetective Pikachuseems to be in with a good chance of becoming a box seat power hit , thanks to its adorable " hot - action " take on Pokémon and some clever promotion from Ryan Reynolds , who is the voice of Detective Pikachu . The upcomingSonic the Hedgehogmovie , on the other handwriting … doesn’t reckon keen .
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