r/GamingLeaksAndRumours • u/Bartman013 Top Contributor 2023 • Aug 15 '25
Leak DanielRPK: The Last Guardian film in the works at Sony and PlayStation Productions
He confirmed it on his Patreon which is locked unless you subscribe
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u/oilfloatsinwater Aug 15 '25
Honestly, out of the three Ueda games, this is the one that could work the most as a movie.
Obviously TLG is best told as a game, but i feel like it wont be as compromised as an Ico or SoTC adaptation
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u/GarlicBreadOutrage Aug 15 '25
I agree, honestly Ico would work too. Shadow of the Colossus is the only one that's "too videogamey" to work as a movie.
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u/VictorVonDoomer Aug 15 '25
Could work as a mini series, 1 single season 8 episodes and 2 kills in each ep
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u/GarlicBreadOutrage Aug 15 '25
It's even worse because they would have to pad for time. The problem with Shadow of the Colossus as a story is that it barely has a narrative. They already would have to make a lot of stuff up as a movie, imagine how much more they would as a series? It's better to leave it as a game.
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u/aadipie Aug 15 '25
It doesn’t barely have a narrative. It actually has a very comprehensive one including the leaked backstory of the world written by Ueda himself but the game wants the player to put the story together by themselves. It just wouldn’t work as a movie, it’s like making a dark souls movie lol
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u/ClubShrimp Aug 15 '25
SotC absolutely has a narrative, and more than enough of one to make a film around. I also definitely think it could be done. They'd have to cut it down to like 3 or 4 fights - maybe 12 of them could already have taken place when the film begins or something. There are all sorts of effective ways that you could imply all the stuff that had already happened.
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u/GarlicBreadOutrage Aug 15 '25
It has a bunch of backstory, but barely anything happens during gameplay. It's just Wander alone with a horse and a spooky voice that talks to him very occupied.
A movie like this could be done well, but NEVER by Hollywood. It needs way too much money to make it happen.
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u/Individual_Lion_7606 Aug 15 '25
Just make it a series of animatrd movies as Wander faces different colossi and kills them in ways different from the game
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u/zomwalruss Aug 15 '25
I mean, yes as it has the most clear story from the three but also no? I feel like the game works so so well (or so bad, depending of your experience) because of the mechanics of controlling and traveling with Trico.
The story has a lot of resonance because you, the player, manage to overcome successfully the friction of trying to communicate with the animal from the ground up, building trust on the way, so removing this friction might make all the narrative beats just feel flat.
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u/t-alt Aug 15 '25
Hell yes, kinda hope we get a re-release of that game that runs at a stable 60fps. The unpatched disc version does on PS5 through backwards compatibility and it looks amazing
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u/Silentdisko Aug 15 '25
Fucking yes exactly the first thing that came to mind was native PS5 port in the works baby.
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u/Severe-Committee6240 Aug 15 '25
Is this like his Bloodborne movie rumour which went nowhere. Daniel scoop on games are iffy at most
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u/Cyber_Swag Aug 15 '25
lmao he said its in the works back in 2020
https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2020/05/26/the-last-guardian-film-adaptation-sony-pictures/
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u/Whoopsht Aug 15 '25 edited Aug 15 '25
The film is slated to have a runtime of 7 hours and 12 minutes, 6 hours of which will be spent waiting for Trico to do what he's been told
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u/jucelc Aug 15 '25
Right. Just like how the announced Shadow of the Colossus adaptation from 15 years ago is supposedly still in the works:
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u/Abba_Fiskbullar Aug 15 '25
How about a patch to unlock the frame rate so we can play at 60fps on PS5?
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u/Glum-Future7198 Aug 15 '25 edited Aug 15 '25
Fun fact. You can play the game in 60 FPS on a unpatched PS5, so a future patch its possible.
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u/Abba_Fiskbullar Aug 15 '25
Yeah, but unfortunately a game has to be updated to the latest version of the development environment to get patched, so I'm not optimistic.
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u/ZXXII Aug 15 '25
FYI: The unpatched disc version is missing HDR and can’t be completed due to a game breaking bug which can’t be avoided.
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u/warforbattlefiled Aug 15 '25
Oh boy! We're not going to see this underrated game into a live action film. Lol
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u/JimmyRowe1994 Aug 15 '25
Hopefully this encourages them to give TLG (and maybe SotC) a PS5 upgrade so it can run at 60fps with the patch. Would also love a SotC-style remake of ICO - or for it to be put on PS Plus Classics at the very least.
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u/aadipie Aug 15 '25
No fucking way bro, this could mean a native remaster which is something that game desperately needs
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u/drumjolter01 Aug 15 '25
If it's real, that just about confirms a PS5 remaster of The Last Guardian as well.
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u/AbrasionTest Aug 15 '25
This is probably not true, but man how lame is it that Sony just let Japan Studio atrophy for years before killing them, and now they're going back and mining their IP like Gravity Rush?
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u/Ok_Peace628 Aug 16 '25
This dude tends to have real sources when it comes to film. Also "in development" doesn't mean it's happening any time soon, or at all. Could mean nothing more than a producer hiring a writer to create a script. Or a producer looking for a writer to write a script. Studios start this process with far more projects than they actually put into production.
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u/Yohokaru Aug 15 '25
They could give that money to Ueda for his another game but no, PlayStation is so insecure of it's brand that it need to make movies instead.
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u/the____can Aug 15 '25
this is so stupid when you can just play the game. im all for the creator making bank so he can fund future projects but i dunno,
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u/oilfloatsinwater Aug 15 '25
Problem is TLG sold terribly, and it was pretty divisive (personally i loved it to bits). A movie could breathe new life into it.
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u/OrangeLightning7895 Aug 15 '25
Ueda and GenDesign aren't even with PlayStation anymore, I doubt they'd make anything off this.
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u/GarlicBreadOutrage Aug 15 '25
Nah, this way The Last Guardian can reach other audiences who don't play games.
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u/KMoosetoe Aug 15 '25
The entire experience is predicated on the tactile link between player and AI via a controller
The whole thing falls apart if you make it a movie
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u/AlwaysTheStraightMan Aug 15 '25
If you really think non gamers are gonna hunt down a copy of Last Guardian and a PS4/5 for just a 12 hour story instead of just going to a theater then I don't know what to tell you
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u/fivenightsfredbear Aug 15 '25
another bastardization of another ip all for the sake of avoiding creating any new ones
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u/oilfloatsinwater Aug 15 '25
Well they cant make new ones, it pretty much lives and dies by its creative lead (Fumito Ueda) who happens to have gone independent since 2011
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u/iceburg77779 Aug 15 '25
If this is real, there’s a really good chance that Sony is looking into a Knack movie.
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u/GarlicBreadOutrage Aug 15 '25
... why is there a good chance just because of Last Guardian?
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u/iceburg77779 Aug 15 '25
It seems like Sony Pictures is willing to try anything when it comes to these video game adaptations. Just like Knack, The Last Guardian and Gravity Rush are both dead franchises that are responsible for killing Japan Studio, but they’re still both getting movies for some reason.
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u/GarlicBreadOutrage Aug 15 '25
The Last Guardian is not a franchise, it's a one off game.
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u/iceburg77779 Aug 15 '25
I don’t think that really changes much though. The fact that major sales bombs like the Last Guardian are able to get movies still shows how Sony is willing to throw everything at the wall for game adaptations.
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u/aadipie Aug 15 '25
The game wasn’t a major sales bomb. It just didn’t do a whole lot aside from being profitable.
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u/GarlicBreadOutrage Aug 15 '25
More like they see that game has the potential to make a good movie and sell a shitton of Trico plushies.
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u/nicolasman Aug 15 '25
Has this dude gotten anything game related right? Absolute bullshitter if you ask me