Sony Publicizes Helldivers and Horizon Films, Plus Ghost of Tsushima Anime Players Area

Sony has revealed three main new visible media initiatives based mostly on a few of its most celebrated franchises, in addition to a launch window for the upcoming second season of The Final of Us.

Throughout its CES 2025 presentation, Sony revealed that it is engaged on a live-action film based mostly on Horizon Zero Daybreak, with PlayStation exec Asad Qizilbash confirming that the challenge is in its “early levels”.

Moreover, we’re additionally getting a live-action film based mostly on Helldivers 2, which is able to, after all, be created together with Sony Footage. Let’s hope this one does not require you to create a PlayStation ID earlier than you may watch it.

It stays to be seen what inventive route these two motion pictures will take; they’re each doubtless pretty early on in manufacturing, so it is likely to be some time earlier than we hear from them once more. Will Helldivers 2 be roughly refined than its apparent inspiration Starship Troopers? We’ll have to attend and see.

It is not simply these two which can be getting variations, both. Sony has additionally revealed that an anime adaptation of Ghost of Tsushima is in manufacturing, with a tentative launch window of 2027.

The anime is being developed together with Sony subsidiaries Aniplex and Crunchyroll, and it will be directed by Takanobu Mizuno, maybe greatest recognized for his work on the Star Wars: Visions brief movie “The Duel”.

Extra particularly, the challenge will apparently adapt the Ghost of Tsushima: Legends multiplayer expertise. It is not solely clear how Sony and Crunchyroll are planning to go about doing this, although.

Moreover, the second season of Sony and HBO’s The Final of Us adaptation will premiere in April, though Sony stopped in need of revealing precisely what day we will anticipate the brand new season to drop.

Issues aren’t standing nonetheless within the worlds of the video games these initiatives are based mostly on, both. Ghost of Tsushima developer Sucker Punch just lately introduced a followup by the identify of Ghost of Yotei, and The Final of Us studio Naughty Canine unveiled its subsequent sport throughout final yr’s Sport Awards, too.