Extraction filmmaker Sam Hargrave is getting into the video game business. The director is attached to helm Universal ‘s Shinobi, an adaptation of the Sega game series that seems tailor-made to his action strengths.

Universal is bringing the classic Sega game series Shinobi to the big screen, with Extraction’s Sam Hargrave as director and comedian and writer Ken Kobayashi handling the screenplay. Story Kitchen, the creative studio that worked with Sega and Paramount on the Sonic the Hedgehog movies,

I'm not exactly sure what Sega's gameplan here is, but the developer has another live-action adaptation in the works, this time about Shinobi.