Sony Interactive Entertainment and GenDesign’s action-adventure game, The Last Guardian, is set to receive a movie adaptation, based on a new report.
Entertainment news insider Daniel Richtman (via Twitter/X user Genki_JPN) has reported that a movie adaptation of PS4 exclusive The Last Guardian is currently in development. They didn’t share any details on the production or casting crew, suggesting that the film is likely in an early conceptual phase.
In theory, the story of The Last Guardian is a good fit for a movie adaptation. However, a lot depends on how the game’s narrative is carried over to the movie, and how much of the emotional impact of actually playing as the boy and commanding Trico is lost in translation.
We certainly hope The Last Guardian movie doesn’t end up encountering the kind of production hurdles that the game faced. Earlier this year, during an interview at Taipei Game Show 2025, former Sony Interactive Entertainment executive Shuhei Yoshida shared some insight on the aforementioned struggles and the survival of one of PlayStation’s most challenging projects. Initially announced in 2009 as a PS3 title, The Last Guardian became infamous for its prolonged development cycle, technical hurdles, and repeated delays. According to Yoshida, under another publisher, the game would’ve been canceled. He said that the development team encountered countless difficulties, but he believed in the vision of director Fumito Ueda, and the emotional impact the game could have on players.
The former Head of Worldwide Studios at Sony Interactive Entertainment mentioned that Ueda’s games have a certain vision, and he wanted Trico to be realized in accordance with said vision. However, the PS3’s performance was inadequate to handle the large character moving about in the background. The game ran at around 10 to 15 fps on the console. No matter what the development team did, it was unable to get it to run at a more playable frame rate. As a result, development was then moved it to PS4, and all the programming had to be re-done.
