Sony Interactive Entertainment recently announced the founding of PlayStation Productions, a studio dedicated to the production of TV series and films based on the gaming properties of the same company.
The division will be led by Asad Qizilbash and overseen by Shawn Layden, and will be based in Culver City at Sony Pictures. It was also revealed that the first projects are already in the pipeline.
Layden commented revealing that he took inspiration from Marvel work:
"In taking the world of comics and making it the greatest thing in the world of cinema" it will be a great inspiration. "
PlayStation Productions will have over 100 original properties at its disposal, all familiar to users and spanning a variety of genres. Here are the words of Qizilbash:
“Instead of licensing our IPs to studios, we felt it was a better approach to develop and produce them ourselves. First: because we are more familiar with the subject, but also because we know what the PlayStation community loves. The idea is to create an opportunity for fans of our games to have more points of contact with our franchises. When fans complete a 40-50 hour game and have to wait three to four years for a sequel, we want to give them places to go and have more of that experience and see the characters they love evolve in different ways. "
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