Universal Pictures and SEGA Corporation are teaming up on a feature film adaptation of the video game franchise "Shinobi," the companies announced on Tuesday. Sam Hargrave, the filmmaker behind Netflix's "Extraction" films,

Universal Pictures is turning the Sega video game “Shinobi” into a feature film. The studio has enlisted “Extraction” filmmaker Sam Hargrave and producer Marc Platt to adapt the hack-and-slash series for the big screen.

Sega said Wednesday one of its most popular games, "Shinobi", will be made into a movie in a joint project with Universal Pictures, aiming to emulate the success of "Super Mario Bros".Sega said the companies hope the "Shinobi" movie will find box office success like "Super Mario Bros".

Following in the footsteps of "Sonic the Hedgehog," the hack-and-slash ninja game will be the latest SEGA property to get the big screen treatment.

It’s just all about Sonic the Hedgehog. Another Sega videogame franchise is heading to the big screen, Shinobi, with Sam Hargrave directing for Universal. Ken Kobayashi (Sunny, Move On) is writing the screenplay adaptation of the arcade game,

Sega's classic hack-and-slash video game series Shinobi is being turned into a movie, and the director behind Extraction and Extraction 2 is making it. Sega announced in a press release that it's teaming up with Universal Studios to make the Shinobi movie,

A Shinobi motion picture adaptation is in development. SEGA and Universal Pictures announced the movie today in a joint press release.