Danica Davidson
April 23, 2025 
According to Deadline, SEGA’s popular 80s arcade game OutRun is getting a live-action Hollywood adaptation, with Michael Bay of Transformers fame set to be director. It’s being developed at Universal, and actress Sydney Sweeney of Euphoria, who has been getting into producing lately, has been listed as a producer. Jayson Rothwell of Polar and Silent Night is attached to write.
Not a whole lot of information is available at this time. For instance, we don’t know what sort of plot it might have, when we might expect it to release, or any actors who might be involved.
We do know that SEGA will be involved with making the movie: Toru Nakahara, a producer for the Hollywood Sonic the Hedgehog movies, is on board to produce this one as well, working on behalf of Sega. At the same time, president/COO of Sega Corp. Shuji Utsumi is in charge of overseeing the OutRun movie.
Universal Pictures previously produced The Super Mario Bros. Movie alongside Nintendo of America and Illumination. That movie shattered records by raking in $377.5 million in its opening days, which at the time was the best opening for a feature film based on a video game.
Director Bay previously worked on the Transformers Hollywood movies, which were also based on a Japanese franchise. Paramount gave this description for the first movie:
Transformers Plot
From director Michael Bay and executive producer Steven Spielberg comes a thrilling battle between the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons. When their epic struggle comes to Earth, all that stands between the Decepticons and ultimate power is a clue held by young Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf). Unaware that he is mankind’s last chance for survival, Sam and Bumblebee, his robot disguised as a car, are in a heart-pounding race against an enemy unlike anything anyone has seen before. It’s the incredible, breath-taking film spectacular that USA Today says “will appeal to the kid in all of us.”
What do you think of a Hollywood OutRun movie?
Source: Deadline
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Danica Davidson is the author of the bestselling Manga Art for Beginners with artist Melanie Westin, plus its sequel, Manga Art for Everyone, and the first-of-its-kind manga chalk book Chalk Art Manga, both illustrated by professional Japanese mangaka Rena Saiya. Check out her other comics and books at www.danicadavidson.com.
