{"id":378390,"date":"2026-04-14T04:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T04:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/378390\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T04:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T04:08:10","slug":"bloodborne-video-game-getting-r-rated-animated-movie-adaptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/378390\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Bloodborne&#8217; Video Game Getting R-Rated Animated Movie Adaptation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tPlayStation\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/bloodborne\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bloodborne\" data-tag=\"bloodborne\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloodborne<\/a>\u201d\u00a0is being developed into an R-rated animated feature for Sony Pictures that the studio says won\u2019t shy away from the carnage that\u2019s made the horror game so popular. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSanford Panitch, president of Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, promised during the studio\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/cinemacon\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cinemacon\" data-tag=\"cinemacon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CinemaCon<\/a> presentation that the long-rumored film will \u201cvery true\u201d to the gory spirit of \u201cBloodborne,\u201d which finds a traveler journeying into a gothic city full of deranged mobs and nightmarish creatures.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cBloodborne\u201d was developed by FromSoftware and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment, which shares a parent company with Sony Pictures and PlayStation. The film is co-produced by PlayStation Productions, Lyrical Animation and creator and gamer Se\u00e1n McLoughlin, better known by his pseudonym JackSepticEye. McLoughlin is a gamer who has spent years in the world of Bloodborne, with his digital adventures tracked by 48 million online fans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tLyrical Media, parent company of Lyrical Animation, is co-financing \u201cBloodborne\u201d with Sony Pictures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe film is the latest in a string of video game adaptations. Sony Pictures and PlayStation Productions recently announced the adaptation of \u201cHelldivers,\u201d directed by Justin Lin, who has helmed several \u201cFast &amp; Furious\u201d films, and starring Jason Momoa. The studio also recently completed filming a screen adaptation of Nintendo\u2019s \u201cThe Legend of Zelda.\u201d \u00a0Wes Ball (\u201cThe Maze Runner\u201d)\u00a0will direct, with Benjamin Evan Ainsworth\u00a0and\u00a0Bo Bragason starring as\u00a0Link\u00a0and\u00a0Princess Zelda. Series creator\u00a0Shigeru Miyamoto\u00a0is producing the film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tVideo game adaptations have become a huge source of box office. Recent films in the genre such as \u201cA Minecraft Movie\u201d and \u201cThe Super Mario Bros. Movie\u201d have been among the highest-grossing films of the post-COVID era. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMcLoughlin, is repped by CAA, Nicole Ambrose, Hansen Jacobson, and 42 West.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PlayStation\u2019s \u201cBloodborne\u201d\u00a0is being developed into an R-rated animated feature for Sony Pictures that the studio says won\u2019t shy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[197060,173642,156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-378390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-bloodborne","9":"tag-cinemacon","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}