Sly Cooper, the stealthy thief from Sony’s popular video game series, will be the latest character to move from the small screen to the big screen. Rainmaker Entertainment and Blockade Entertainment are announcing today they will make a film based on Sony’s Sly Cooper stealth-platformer video game franchise.
Sly Cooper is cel shaded. The movie will be computer generated.
The film will have a computer-generated art style and will debut in 2016. The movie is the third film based on PlayStation video game characters that Sony Computer Entertainment, the game division of Sony, has greenlit with Blockade, which is also working on the Heavenly Sword and Ratchet & Clank films.
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