Now that he’s got Minecraft and Super Mario Galaxy under his belt, celebrated loud man Jack Black is looking for his next videogame movie gig. And it turns out he’s got excellent taste, because he’s got his eye on Yakuza.
Chatting to ScreenRant to promote Super Mario Galaxy, where he lends his voice to Bowser, he revealed that he’d be willing to jump ship from Nintendo to Sega.
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While the Yakuza series is mostly set in Japan, American characters do crop up from time to time, sometimes as slapstick parodies. The last two Yakuza games were also set in the US—specifically Hawaii. They’re on my to-play list because Yakuza games are a million hours long and I’m still catching up.
Amazon’s Yakuza TV show was a bit of a dud, though, so Black might end up waiting a while for that call from Sega. I imagine he’ll still be cropping up in more videogame movies, though. It seems like that’s his thing these days. Though I do wonder if he regrets playing Claptrap in the Borderlands disaster—who wouldn’t?
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