GHOST OF TSUSHIMA: Chad Stahelski is directing the Samurai Video Game Film Adaptation for Sony Pictures

Ghost of Tsushima Greenlit with Chad Stahelski Directing

Sucker Punch Productions’ video game Ghost of Tsushima is going to be adapted into a movie. Published by Sony Interactive Entertainment, the samurai warrior video game has sold more than 6.5. million copies.

The video game-to-film adaptation will be directed by Chad Stahelski, the director behind the action film John Wick.

Ghost of Tsushima‘s plot synopsis (spoilers): “In 1274, a Mongolian invasion fleet led by Khotun Khan lands on the Japanese island of Tsushima. Jin Sakai joins with the rest of the island’s local samurai, led by his uncle Lord Shimura, in an attempt to repel the invasion. The battle ends in disaster, with the samurai army killed, Lord Shimura captured, and Jin grievously wounded and left for dead. Jin is found and nursed back to health by Yuna, a local thief, who informs him that most of Tsushima has already fallen to the Mongols. Jin storms Khotun’s stronghold at Castle Kaneda in an attempt to rescue Lord Shimura, but is defeated by Khotun in combat and is thrown from a bridge.”

Realizing that he cannot defeat the Mongols by himself or with traditional samurai fighting tactics, Jin begins scouring the island to recruit allies and learn fighting techniques to aid in his quest to rescue Lord Shimura. He manages to recruit Yuna, her blacksmith brother Taka, devious merchant Kenji, master archer Ishikawa, female samurai Masako Adachi, and his old friend and mercenary Ryuzo and his Straw Hat r?nin. As Jin disrupts Mongol activities and liberates towns across the island, the locals begin to revere him as “The Ghost”. Taka crafts a special climbing hook that allows Jin to scale the walls of Kaneda Castle, and he calls for his allies to commence the rescue mission. Destitute and starving, Ryuzo and the Straw Hats betray Jin to collect the bounty issued on his head by the Mongols, but Jin manages to fend them off, free Lord Shimura and retake Kaneda Castle.”

Ghost of Tsushima has no production start date yet. The film has no official theatrical release date yet either.

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