Good Burger and Saturday Night Live star Kenan Thompson just launched his movie production studio, Artists For Artists, and one of its first projects will be an animated series based on a PlayStation video game.
First details on the mystery adaptation come from an interview Forbes conducted with Thompson about the studio. Co-founded alongside John Ryan Jr., it’s a company that got its start with Good Burger 2 just last month and already has 50 other movies and TV shows in the works with giants like Netflix and Universal.
Sony is in the mix, too, with AFA looking to make a series based on one of its many gaming IPs. Sadly, Thomspon and Ryan aren’t ready to talk about which game viewers can expect to see come to life.
“We worked with Sony to get the rights to and we’re turning this game that’s done over $1 billion in sales into a cartoon,” Ryan added. “And they’ve been so giving with the freedom; we thought it was going to be a bigger lift than it was.”
The question is obvious; What game is AFA working on making a cartoon? Jak and Daxter or Ratchet & Clank come to mind as clear options, but PlayStation has access to dozens of franchises that could work as an animated series. LittleBigPlanet, Sly Cooper, or even Infamous have potential in the realm of animation, too, though it’s hard to make guesses with so little go off of.
Sony has been busy bringing its games to other entertainment mediums for the last few years. The Last of Us and Twisted Metal both recently received the television show treatment at HBO and Peacock, respectively. There’s also the Gran Turismo movie, which attempted to retell the real-life story of a gamer-turned-racer earlier this year.
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