Netflix hops aboard Sifu movie adaptation, assigns a screenwriter

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Netflix hops aboard Sifu movie adaptation, assigns a screenwriter

We learned in December 2022 that a production company had signed on to turn Sloclap's excellent martial arts game Sifu into a film. Today, the news dropped that Netflix is involved with the project, which seems to have caused some personnel shuffling behind the scenes. The initial announcement saw Story Kitchen, which has since amassed a huge catalog of video game adaptations, securing a treatment of Sifu with John Wick creator Derek Kolstad att…

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While waiting for John Wick 5, Chad Stahelski, the director of the Muscle Franchise, will produce a new martial arts film. And not just any one, since this is an adaptation of the Sifu video game for Netflix. A...

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SIFU: Netflix Nabs Rights To Live-Action Adaptation Of Hit Martial Arts Game, ‘The Maze Runner’ Scribe To Pen Script - Film Combat Syndicate

T.S. Nowlin is penning the script for the movie which 87Eleven and Story Kitchen will produce for the streamer. The post SIFU: Netflix Nabs Rights To Live-Action Adaptation Of Hit Martial Arts Game, ‘The Maze Runner’ Scribe To Pen Script first appeared on Film Combat Syndicate.

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NewsGaming.net Netflix recovers the film Sifu for his catalog and finds him a Hollywood screenwriter being ready to jump on the slightest project of adaptation of a game having met the success, it is quite naturally that a film Sifu was announced at the end of 2022 following the beautiful career of the game of Sloclap. Transposing Sifu into film seems to be a fairly sure bet since the game itself inspired many martial art films. Still remains to…

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Netflix joins Sifu film project as development continues on Sloclap adaptation

Netflix has joined the Sifu film project, adapting Sloclap's kung-fu roguelike for the big screen.

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Teacher was poisoned by these biscuits! ‘John Wick’ mastermind to produce Live-action adaptation of ‘Sifu’

87Eleven Entertainment is attached to produce Netflix’ Live-action adaptation of Slocap’s beat ’em up video game, Sifu. 87Eleven is owned by Chad Stahelski, who is best-known as the co-director of the original John Wick and sole director of John Wick: Chapter 2, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum and John Wick: Chapter 4. The video game tells a story of revenge set in modern-day China. It follows the student of a martial arts school’s master (Sifu