We got the first word on a movie adaptation of the PlayStation exclusive Ghost of Tsushima last year, and John Wick director Chad Stahelski was announced to be in the directing chair. As the project moves forward, Deadline has reported that Takashi Doscher is set to write the screenplay for Sony Pictures and PlayStation Productions.

Takashi Doscher’s feature debut Still released in 2018, starring Lydia Wilson, Nick Blood and Madeline Brewer. His last film was 2019’s Only, starring Freida Pinto and Leslie Odom Jr as a couple fighting for survival in a post-apocalyptic world where a virus is killing off women. Doscher directed both of those films, as well as wrote them. He also directed the 2010 documentary A Fighting Chance for ESPN. 

Ghost of Tsushima is in early development with no casting news available. The film will adapt the 2020 game developed by Sucker Punch and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment which tells the story of Jin Sakai, the surviving member of a Samurai clan who fights back against the Mongolian army invading the island of Tsushima. 

In my review for Ghost of Tsushima, I said:

“Ludonarrative dissonance ruins the core narrative, but the side stories are fantastic. As the swan song of the PS4 generation, Ghost of Tsushima is suitably a mishmash of many of the generation’s biggest things with a sprinkle of new ideas.”

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