"Streets of Rage" Video Game Film Adaptation in Works

“Streets of Rage”, a popular 1990s hand-to-hand combat video game, is getting the big screen treatment. 

Lionsgate has landed the motion picture rights to the Sega game.

“John Wick” writer Derek Kolstad is attached to write and produce the project.

“When Dmitri first mentioned the idea of cracking a ‘Streets of Rage’ movie, I was so immediately freaking in,” Kolstad said in a statement.

“And to play with Sega? The 10-year-old me is still grinning.”

The producers include Sega’s Toru Nakahara; dj2 Entertainment’s Dmitri M. Johnson, Timothy I. Stevenson, Dan Jevons; Escape Artists’ Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, and Tony Shaw.

“Streets of Rage” was released in 1991 and centers around a group of ex-cops who use their fists to take on a crime syndicate. 

The video game was one of the most beloved videogame franchises of the Clinton era, with Sega publishing three games between 1991 and 1994. In 2020, a fourth game was released.