Netflix and SEGA Partner To Turn Several SEGA Games Into TV Shows, Including a Crazy Taxi Film and Sonic Animated Series
Dan Gregor and Doug Mand will write the film treatment as Netflix expands its video game adaptation slate with Sega.
- On Monday, Netflix and Sega announced a multi-title partnership to adapt gaming franchises including Sonic the Hedgehog, Crazy Taxi, and Stranger Than Heaven into films and television series.
- Targeting an upper pre-school audience, Netflix is developing an animated Sonic the Hedgehog series with producers Carlos Stevens and Toru Nakahara designed as a high-voltage, comedic experience for children.
- Writers Dan Gregor and Doug Mand, the screenwriting duo behind 2025's reboot of The Naked Gun, are penning Crazy Taxi with producers Neal H. Moritz and Toby Ascher of Original Film and Sega's Toru Nakahara.
- Set in early 20th-century Japan, the live-action Stranger Than Heaven film originates from RGG Studio, developer of the bestselling Like a Dragon: Yakuza series, with over 30 million copies sold.
- Netflix VP of Nonfiction and Transmedia Brandon Riegg stated that great games have "characters people love," while Sega President and COO Shuji Utsumi expressed pride in the partnership reaching established fandoms.
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Netflix and SEGA Partner To Turn Several SEGA Games Into TV Shows, Including a Crazy Taxi Film and Sonic Animated Series
Netflix and SEGA have agreed to a multi-title partnership that will bring several of the publisher’s best-known games to the streamer’s platform, beginning with a live-action feature film based on Crazy Taxi. The agreement, announced on 14 September 2026, also covers new projects drawn from Sonic the Hedgehog and STRANGER THAN HEAVEN, spanning live-action comedy, […]
NETFLIX and Sega are making a feature film based on the cult video game Crazy Taxi.
Sega and Netflix team up for Crazy Taxi movie, new Sonic series, and Stranger Than Heaven film
Crazy Taxi, the classic racing game that was one of the best reasons to buy a Dreamcast, will be turned into a feature film written by Dan Gregor and Doug Mand, the duo who penned the 2025 reboot of The Naked Gun. It will be produced by Neal H. Moritz,...Read Entire Article
We've reached the Crazy Taxi point of Hollywood's video game movie rush
Just in time for Gen Alpha to turn millennials to dust by asking, “What’s a taxi?” and the follow-up, “Oh, like a Waymo but with a driver and health insurance,” Variety reports that Netflix is getting in the Crazy Taxi business. The film, written by Naked Gun reboot scribes Dan Gregor and Doug Mand, is part of a multi-title deal between Netflix and Sega, including a new Sonic The Hedgehog TV series and a Stranger Than Heaven movie. Most importan…
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