Sega’s "Streets of Rage" Movie Finds It's Creative Team

The film adaptation of Sega‘s iconic “Streets of Rage” video game is alive and well at Lionsgate and has found its new creative team.

The studio has tapped Pat Casey and Josh Miller, the masterminds behind the “Sonic the Hedgehog” film franchise, to write the adaptation and “The Harder They Fall” filmmaker Jeymes Samuel to direct.

Casey and Miller board the “Streets of Rage” movie following the exit of Derek Kolstad.

Kolstad had written an earlier draft of the screenplay after Lionsgate first acquired the rights in 2022 alongside “Sonic the Hedgehog” movies and Amazon’s “Life Is Strange” TV series producer Story Kitchen (formerly dj2 Entertainment).

While plot details are being kept under wraps, the adaptation is described as leaning “heavily into the cult classic game known for its iconic characters, acclaimed electronic soundtracks and beat ’em up action.”

Loved for its beat ’em up gameplay and influential music selection, “Streets of Rage” was one of the most popular video game series of the 1990s and has remained a top selling title over the decades.

The franchise spawned a fourth game in 2020, which sold more than 2.5 million copies within its first year.

Along with the Sonic films, which has grossed more than $1 billion worldwide to date, Casey and Miller are best known for the Universal franchise “Violent Night,” starring David Harbour, and are currently writing the horror comedy feature “Dead Drunk” for producer Graham King’s GK Films.

Samuel wrote, directed, and produced the BAFTA winner “The Harder They Fall,” and wrote and directed “The Book of Clarence.”

The “Streets of Rage” movie is produced by Sega’s Toru Nakahara, Story Kitchen’s Dmitri M. Johnson, Michael Lawrence Goldberg and Timothy I. Stevenson, and Escape Artists’ Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal and Tony Shaw, and Kolstad.

Casey and Miller are executive producing, with Elena Sandoval serving as an EP for Story Kitchen.

James Myers and Pavan Kalidindi will oversee the project for Lionsgate. Shuji Utsumi and Nakahara are overseeing for Sega. Johnson is overseeing for Story Kitchen. Shaw is overseeing for Escape Artists.