Overview
- Netflix and SEGA announced the partnership on Monday, September 14, confirming development of three adaptations across film and TV with named creative teams attached.
- A feature film adaptation of Crazy Taxi is set to be written by Dan Gregor and Doug Mand with producers Neal H. Moritz, Toby Ascher and SEGA’s Toru Nakahara attached, and is presented as the leading project in the slate.
- Netflix will develop a new animated Sonic the Hedgehog series aimed at an upper‑preschool audience, developed with Carlos Stevens and Toru Nakahara and described as energetic and emotionally grounded.
- RGG Studio’s Stranger Than Heaven will be adapted into a live‑action crime film with Toru Nakahara producing, and the game that inspired it is scheduled for release in January 2027.
- The partnership builds on prior Netflix–SEGA work and expands Netflix’s broader slate of video‑game adaptations, a move that could widen audiences for SEGA IP and tie screen projects to upcoming game launches.