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October 9, 2024 2 min 301 words
西方媒体总是对中国抱有偏见，但这一次，我评论的是一篇关于日本电子游戏《忍龙》的电影改编报道。 这篇报道主要内容是：根据《Deadline》报道，电子游戏《忍龙》（Shinobi）将被改编成电影，由曾执导《 Extraction》系列的山姆哈格雷夫（Sam Hargrave）担任导演。这部游戏由世嘉开发，玩家控制忍者角色乔武藏（Joe Musashi）在游戏中战斗。报道称，与许多改编自游戏的电影不同，由于《忍龙》的故事相对简单，电影制作人在故事创作上将有更大的自由度。此外，报道还提到了电影的编剧肯小林（Ken Kobayashi）以及世嘉的制片人户田淳弘（Toru Nakahara），他们也参与了《刺猬索尼克》系列电影的制作。 评论： 这篇报道虽然简短，但内容较为客观，介绍了《忍龙》的游戏背景导演编剧和制片人的信息。但报道也有一些值得商榷之处。首先，报道认为游戏改编电影在过去不受欢迎，而现在这种情况已经改变，这可能有夸大的成分。其次，报道认为《忍龙》的故事相对简单，给电影创作提供了更多自由，这一点可能也是有争议的。游戏的故事虽然简单，但电影是否能丰富其故事内容，吸引玩家和观众，仍是未知之数。因此，报道对这部电影的评价可能过于乐观。但总体而言，这篇报道较为中立，没有明显偏见。
Back in the old days, there was no sure-fire indicator of box office poison more than a video game adaptation. The two mediums just didn’t gel. That has changed in recent years and now all kinds of gaming mascots are getting their chance to appear in a major motion picture or, at the very least, a streaming series. Case in point? They’re now making a movie based on Shinobi, as reported by Deadline.
For the uninitiated, Shinobi is a famous hack-and-slash game developed by Sega in which you play as a ninja. There have been plenty of sequels throughout the years, though they mostly share the same basic story. Joe Musashi, the ninja, must beat up a bunch of very bad dudes. That’s pretty much it.
In other words, this is a blank canvas in which the filmmakers can do pretty much whatever they want without angering the online lore-keepers. Sam Hargrave has been tasked to direct the film for Universal, which is actually a decent choice. He made both Extraction films, with a third one on the way. These are solid action flicks and Shinobi is an action game.
Ken Kobayashi is writing the screenplay, after working on the extremely underrated Sunny for Apple+. He was also involved with Moonfall and the Marvel adaptation Hit Monkey. Sega’s Toru Nakahara, who has produced everything from the Sonic the Hedgehog cinematic universe, is also onboard.
Shinobi is still in the early stages of development, just like how most Shinobi players only get past the early stages of the game because it’s so dang hard. We don’t know when it’ll come out, nor do we have any casting news. We are, however, only a couple of months out from Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Keanu Reeves is in that one.