Sega ninja game 'Shinobi' gets movie treatment

The Japanese gamemaker did not give a target date for the release but said it had "started the development of a film production" with the Hollywood behemoth. "Shinobi" was originally created for Japanese arcades in 1987 and features a ninja character who fights to stop a criminal organisation that kidnaps child ninjas. It is the latest effort to cash in on a video-game adaptation craze after "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" became the second-highest grossing film of 2023, following a 2020 adaptation of Sega's "Sonic the Hedgehog".